My new story is about what is broken in Southwest Minneapolis. This consists of looking through a list of complaints we have received about roads or stop lights or garbage in Southwest Minneapolis. Sounds easy, but most of these complaints are pretty old and the list hasn’t been updated so a lot of those issues have already been fixed or written about.
Then there’s the issue of finding out who actually made the complaint. Since not all of the complaints had a person you could contact, that made it difficult, especially, as I found out in my second What’s Broken story, if there really is no problem and people in the neighborhood laugh at the idea that there could be a problem.
So I take on a story about a road that is “really dangerous” for cars because of all of the potholes. But I drive down there after talking to the lady who made the request…yeah, railroad tracks tend to have issues with crossing them… and the potholes were mostly within the tracks, which are going to be really bumpy anyway. But I, begrudgingly, wrote the story anyway.
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