About

Local government decides more about your daily life.

Your property taxes. Whether the new development goes up next door. Which roads get fixed. How much your water bill goes up next year.

Most of these decisions happen in city council and county meetings that run two, three, four hours long. Almost no one watches them. So decisions get made, budgets get passed, and most people find out months later when the bill arrives or the construction starts.

That's the gap we're trying to close.

What we do

We sit through San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose city council and county meetings so you don't have to. Then we publish short, plain-English updates on what got decided, what changed, and what it means for you.

• What got approved
• Who voted which way
• What changes next month
• What it means for you

No hot takes. No politics-as-sport. Just the decisions and their impact.

How we work

We attend many of these meetings in person. Every decision we report is checked against the official minutes. Every number against the agenda. If something isn't confirmed in the record, we leave it out.

How it's funded

• Supervisor and city council updates are free, and always will be.
• Committee coverage, the deeper, more time-intensive stuff:
  $4/month or $40/year for members.

No paywalls anywhere else.