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In the Illinois big cities, guys named Mario control the snow removal and road repair with the same franchise you described. Their grand dads passed the franchises down to their heirs.

123 posted on 04/09/2017 6:50:08 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The Democrat Party is the action arm of the Establishment Media. Thanks to Mark Twain for this!)

The snow franchise belonged to Barry's brother in law, until some snowmaggedon in about 1994. Trucks all broken and inoperable and the Corps of Engineers had to clear the roads while Marion flew off to Bermuda for vacation stating "God put the snow there, god can take it away."

Congress took management of the city away from its democratically elected representatives some time after that. Why they gave it back, I don't know, except as a continual reminder of why DC statehood is such a bad idea. Two senators from here?! Seriously?