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Philly, your parks and trash are still buggin' 311.

Your wooder bill might get wilder, or nah?

Listen, y'all wanna know what's really happening in this city? You gotta look at the 311 requests. People callin' about what's really buggin' 'em. And what I'm seein' here in the data is tellin' me somethin' about how we livin' day-to-day.

Top of the List

I'm not even gonna hold you, the big one right now ain't even about some wild new development in Fishtown or somethin'. It's the everyday stuff:

* Sanitation Violation

* Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection

* Parks and Rec Safety and Maintenance

See that? People are still callin' in about sanitation violations and their trash not getting picked up. And the parks? We got wooder ice festivals and summertime cookouts, but if the parks ain't safe or maintained, what are we even doing? This ain't about some big, shiny new project. This is about the basic upkeep of our city, the stuff that makes living here feel right, or nah?

What This Means for You

This tells me that while City Hall might be talkin' about grand plans, the people on the ground are still fightin' battles over overflowing trash cans and busted swings in the park. It's the little things that pile up, you know? The next time you walk past a park in West Philly or down on Passyunk Avenue, peep the conditions. That's the real story. We gotta keep pushing City Hall to focus on these core services, 'cause that's the jawn that truly impacts our daily lives.

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

Keisha Robinson-Moyer, MiTL Sports Desk

Me and the crew are breakin' down all this city jawn every mornin' — catch it live at mornings.live.

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