I love the honorable mention my city gets for "cleanliness." Those street-sweepers are all over the place. They've got several full-time 3rd shift sweeper-drivers out every night, especially downtown Minneapolis. Too bad they always skip the "bad" neighborhoods, which are fairly calm during the day, but often uglified by litter in the streets. (I guess they don't want to get caught in any cross-fire.) The city puts out a lot of trash cans, which helps, but some people are fvcking pigs anyway and don't use them. In an ironic twist, the Minneapolis Post Office recently removed about 1/3 of its mailboxes because a--holes would use them as trash cans. :|