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Your 311 requests are just "Miscellaneous." Seriously?

Yo, they're still not telling us the real tea

Listen, I'm not even gonna hold you. We checkin' in with City Hall, and this jawn is wild. You know how we always talk about transparency, right? And how they always say they're listenin' to the people? Well, according to the latest 311 service request data, the top three issues are just listed as "Miscellaneous." Three times!

Like, what's "miscellaneous," or nah? Is that a broken fire hydrant on my block in West Philly? Is it a pothole big enough to swallow a whole SEPTA bus? We callin' in, we expectin' answers, and they just hit us with "miscellaneous." That ain't right. We need specifics if we gonna fix this city. The Street Defect requests are still there, yeah, and Maintenance Complaints, but how many of those get lumped into "miscellaneous"? We gotta keep pressin' 'em for real answers on what's actually goin' on out here.

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

Keisha Robinson-Moyer, MiTL Sports Desk

Youse can hear me break this down even further on the morning show, live at mornings.live.

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