What’s really going on with your city hall
Listen, y'all, I'm not even gonna hold you, the latest civic data outta City Hall is... well, it's a lot of "miscellaneous" requests, or nah? You got all these categories of 311 service requests, and the top eight are all just "Miscellaneous." What kinda wooder ice flavor is that? It's like, what are people even calling about if nobody can name it? Is it potholes in Chestnut Hill that don't fit a category? Is it a stray cat in Graduate Hospital that needs a specific jawn? We need some transparency on what these "miscellaneous" calls actually are.
### What's Up With All That Miscellaneous Jawn?
I’m talkin’ about real numbers, here. If the top eight categories are all vague, how we supposed to know what’s really buggin’ folks in West Philly or down in South Philly near Passyunk Avenue? That's our tax dollars goin' to fix… something.
* Top 311 issues: Miscellaneous requests
* The next seven top issues: Also Miscellaneous requests
It just makes you wonder what kind of specific issues are getting lumped into that big ol' bucket. We need to see the breakdown, not just a bunch of question marks. We deserve to know what's really happening on the ground, what our neighbors are dealing with.
That's the jawn, Philly — we don't do fake out here. We gotta push City Hall to give us the real lowdown on these "miscellaneous" jawns so we can hold 'em accountable.
Keisha Robinson-Moyer, MiTL Sports Desk Philadelphia
Me and the whole crew are breakin’ down all this wild jawn every morning live over at mornings.live.