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Philly's top 311 complaint is "miscellaneous." What does that even mean?

Yo, is City Hall even workin' for us or nah?

Listen, you know I keep it real about what's happenin' down at City Hall, and this latest jawn from the 311 service requests just got me lookin' sideways. We got a whole lotta "Miscellaneous" sittin' at the top of the list, which tells me one thing: people are callin' about stuff that don't fit into a neat little box. Like, what *is* miscellaneous? Is it a pothole on Spring Garden that ain't a pothole 'cause it's more like a sinkhole? Or is it a wild cat problem in West Philly that the city ain't got a category for?

It makes you wonder if the folks in the Mayor's Office are even gettin' a real read on what's buggin' regular Philadelphians. If the top issues are just "miscellaneous," how they gonna fix anything? I'm not even gonna hold you, it feels like they need to dig a little deeper into these calls to figure out what the *real* problems are. We pay our taxes for 'em to address the actual issues, not just put 'em in a bucket called "other." Keep your eyes peeled, 'cause if these "miscellaneous" requests keep pilein' up, we gonna see more frustrated neighbors and less action from the city.

That's the jawn, Philly — we don't do fake out here.

Keisha Robinson-Moyer (@kee_westphilly)

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