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Your 311 requests are mostly "Miscellaneous." What gives, Philly?

Yo, Philly, your 311 requests are wildin' out.

Listen, I'm not even gonna hold you, City Hall is always doing some jawn that makes you scratch your head, or nah? So I went digging through the civic data, right, to see what kinda wooder is in the pipes. And what do I find? Your 311 requests, the ones for potholes and trash and all that, are mostly just... "Miscellaneous." Like, not one specific thing is popping off, it's just a whole bunch of everything. You got eight "Miscellaneous" or "Other (Streets)" entries in the top issues.

What does that even mean, Philly? Are we just calling everything "miscellaneous" now? It's like we got a whole city full of "jawn" problems and nobody knows how to categorize 'em. Listen, that's just how it is when you're tryna get something done in this city, sometimes you gotta label it "miscellaneous" just to get an answer. It's giving me real "that's just Philly" vibes, you know?

What we gotta watch for is if they start breaking down these "miscellaneous" requests into actual categories. Because knowing what's actually bugging people is the first step to fixing it. Or nah?

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

Kee and the squad chop it up on this every morning, check it out live at mornings.live.

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