The Blueprint Blog

Planning Commissioner Kathrin Moore received a warning from the City Attorney about her conflicts of interest over a decade ago - and still approved projects from a company that was paying her.

The city used tax dollars to pay someone known for…bashing the city. Plus - we need more locked treatment beds for those in crisis.

Assemblymember Matt Haney has gotten a landmark piece of legislation extending bar hours to 4am all the way to the finish line. But now a rogue Senator is trying to kill it.

We could be getting more locked treatment beds - what our most mentally ill folks need - a lot faster. But unions are opposing them.

While SFUSD students fall behind, district leadership is prioritizing controversial classes that don’t actually help our students succeed. And that’s wrong.

Welcome to the Blueprint Brief, your biweekly rundown of what’s been happening in City Hall and local politics. We’ll do our best to present the facts in a clear, unbiased way - and also let you know what we think about them, always through a lens of pragmatism.