and you inspire all of us!

Maybe the mayor could pay people to pick up and turn on trash? Like you get 5.99 per pound of mixed trash…. (Arbitrary)… in this way squeegee kids or anyone can profit by servicing the city.

I once threw trash back in a car while I was riding my bike. It didn't go well, I expected them to thank me for enlightening then of the error of their ways instead they called me a motherfucker and threw the trash back out. I was flummoxed.

I just put a recurring reminder on my calendar for the night before recycling day. Some people near me are still using the small bins with no cover and that often doesn’t end well

Well in the age of Amazon if you miss one you’re fucked

So yes it goes out every week out of paranoia. But it’s in a lid can so I don’t think it’s blowing away

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Cause people don’t know how to throw shit in a trash can.

It’s called CharmCity trash

I knew it! That's what's up. You've always been my favorite

I live near a high school so a lot of students walk through the area. One day I was looking out the window and I saw one finish what he was drinking and throw the cup over his shoulder right in the middle of the alley. I was raised to never litter. I don't understand why people think others should have to clean up after them.

It’s because very few city residents actually live down town

Yep. When I was working near JHMI I remember a woman exit the 7-Eleven, take a single sip of her coffee, shout "this coffee fuckin sucks", and then proceed to throw the entire cup onto the sidewalk. Coffee everywhere and the cup/lid flew into the road.

I actually laughed out loud when I witnessed that. Totally unexpected lol. But still pretty sad.

For decades the insurance industry said City residents pay more because they have more accidents. Current stats indicate that the city is on par or nearly so with MoCo, and some other counties, with PG county being higher. Yet we still pay the most.

220 with Geico. Homeowners included too.

The good with the bad. I have noticed, with the large green city issued trash cans, that people leave them out 24/7. My neighbor seems to have a never ending over flowing trash can. In the early 2000s, the city would slap a fine on people who left their cans out when it was not the appointed day. Now the city does nothing.

Next there seems to be no control over apartments and schools. Drive down Ploy street in the early hours and it looks like a farmer is running his herd of rats to market. The several apartments and the School For the arts. have small dumpsters, that are nearly always over flowing.

To add a little salt in the wound. All property owners. in Mt Vernon, have to pay a special district tax. This was started about 25 yrs ago, and back then there were a number of extra services which the property owner got. Such as- weekly sidewalk sweeping, in coordination with a vacuum jitney which would vacuum the streets and the sidewalk litter. Unarmed guards, patrolling the streets. Large planters, and several other items. These services were performed by Midtown and Downtown Partnership. Since the 2008 recession most of the services stopped. In recent years only the vacuum buggy is seen on rare occasions and a handful of planters are dropped off mid spring to fend for themselves. In the early days it all worked well, now its just theft by the city on property owners.

Respectfully disagree. This problem goes way back, way before current times. But have an upvote.

Haha! I guess I'm onairashley now, too? Still Ashley off air. Should I just be everywhereashley?

Cincinnati was great but they raised prices like crazy for us and we had to let them go. I’m still sad about it because they were so good.

I’m working on befriending crow family on my block.

Username does NOT check out, Ashley, but we will allow it for your many years of tireless reporting and pouring boxed wine at member events.

But, what are your preferred pronouns? Because Ashley is one of those multi-purpose names. Cheers! Edit from down thread: mostly they but she is welcome.

I have to follow up on that one. I'm not sure who's in charge there now! I used to have editing ability on our website and I fixed my pronouns like six years ago, but subtly so I'm not sure if anyone noticed!

I swear I could hear the happiness in your voice when I first heard you do the name switch-up this week. Congrats on making the on-air move!

Do you know if your web folks plan to update your bio page on the WYPR site? I only ask because when I heard your name drop, I went to the website to make sure I wasn’t jumping to the wrong conclusion.

You answered your own question at the end, but yes I have seen people dump an armful of trash within 5 feet of an empty trash can right next to the courthouse. It’s so common it’s in the fiction about the city. What it boils down to is Baltimore’s citizens just do not care at all about their city, or at least not in numbers significant enough to make a difference.

Go you! I am happy you are becoming who you want to be.

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