BY J.P. Romney
Apr. 26, 2018
In 1919 mayoral candidate J. Hampton Moore ran on the platform “The city must clean its own streets!” Almost one-hundred years later Mayor Jim Kenney ran on the same platform. So what happened?
J.P. Romney takes a look back at the city’s historical challenges in keeping our streets clean. Listen below:
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