Your tax dollars and City Hall just doing... nothing?

Listen, y'all, I'm not even gonna hold you, sometimes I feel like I'm talking to a wall when I'm looking at these City Hall reports. But it's my job to break down what's happening with *our* money and *our* city, so let's get into it.

This week's civic data from Philly is... well, it's a whole lotta question marks, or nah? When you look at the 311 service requests, which is how regular folks like us tell the city what's wrong, there's no real specifics. It just says "Complaints against Fire or EMS: ? requests" and then like seven "Information Request: ? requests." That's not transparent, that's just a blank page, jawn. How are we supposed to know what's going on if the city ain't even telling us what people are complaining about or asking for?

### What Are They Building?

And then we got this development activity. Listen, Philly is always building something, or tearing something down to build something else. You see it everywhere, from Fishtown to West Philly. But the report just got a bunch of "N/A" for all the permits – BP_MECH, BP_NEWCNST, PP_PLUMBNG. This means we ain't getting any real numbers on new construction or plumbing permits. It feels like they ain't giving us the full picture of what's actually getting built and where.

That's the jawn, Philly — we don't do fake out here. We need more than just question marks and "N/A" when it comes to how our city is run. We need to watch and see if these numbers ever get filled in, or if it's just gonna stay a mystery.

This is Keisha Robinson-Moyer, your Morning Wire correspondent for Philadelphia.

Yo, what do youse think about all this? Me and the crew break it down every morning, so catch us live at mornings.live.