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Your 311 requests are getting lost in "Miscellaneous." What gives?

City Hall keeps ignoring us, or nah?

Listen, I'm not even gonna hold you, sometimes I wonder if anybody at City Hall actually looks at what regular Philadelphians are asking for. You see all these 311 requests for "Miscellaneous" stuff, right? What in the wooder ice is "Miscellaneous"? Are they just lumping everything they don't wanna deal with into one big pile? It's like asking for a cheesesteak and they hand you a jawn with everything on it but you don't even know what you're eating.

Think about it: "Miscellaneous" is the top complaint. That ain't right. It tells you they ain't even categorizing the real issues folks are facing, so how they gonna fix 'em? It's like when my dad used to say SEPTA was gonna fall apart and nobody listened. Now look. We need real answers, real categories, not some vague jawn that lets them sweep problems under the rug.

This "Miscellaneous" jawn ain't just a number; it's a symptom. It means the city isn't tracking our problems, which means they ain't fixing 'em. We gotta demand they break down this "Miscellaneous" stuff so we know what's really going on in our neighborhoods.

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

Kee Robinson-Moyer, MiTL Sports Desk, West Philly.

Yo, me and the crew talk about this kinda jawn every morning on the show — tap in at mornings.live.

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