There are 2 article(s) tagged Maurice Spivey:

• January 2024

  • One of last two surviving 1968 sanitation workers dies

    In an NPR interview in 2018, Elmore Nickelberry said, “I knew I wasn’t no garbage man. I just worked in garbage.”

    By Bill Dries January 03, 2024

• February 2020

  • The Politics of Garbage: A backlog of leaves bumps into complex past

    The city's response to a backlog in picking up leaves reveals just how politically volatile the city's most basic service can be -- and has been -- for decades.

    By Bill Dries February 03, 2020