sanitation
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After leading a technological upgrade for the NYPD, Ms. Tisch landed her “dream job” as sanitation commissioner and did to the city’s rat population what she has lately been doing to street crime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Then we needed to upload fire and sanitation inspection reports.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Detainees have reported worm-like creatures in their drinking water, launched hunger strikes, and signed onto class-action lawsuits in recent months, decrying poor food, sanitation and medical care.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
There are bigger, structural issues that make these events worse and which take much longer to resolve such as "housing in exposed areas, fragile water and sanitation systems, and a weak healthcare system", he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
He had traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, to support black sanitation workers who were being treated unfairly in their jobs.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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