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Ideas · Essay
…is the cheapest thing I could offer it. We are perfectly willing, as a culture, to admire maintenance in the abstract. What we will not do is notice it, fund it, credit it, or arrange our institutions around it.…
Politics · Public works
…of commuter villages south of Norhaven—whose voters adopted what has come to be called the maintenance covenant. Its terms fit on a single page. No district money may be spent on a new road, or on widening an old…
Politics · Government
…Halbridge ferry terminal by 40 percent in 2019. In 2023 it failed to spend 9 percent of its maintenance allocation, not for lack of work but for lack of people: 17 percent of its engineering posts are vacant, and private…
Culture · Archives
…says. “Every three hours for a hundred-odd years. It took everyone a while to notice.” It is maintenance, all of it: the dehumidifier, the cool room, the freezer, the old men correcting one another’s sevens. The lights…
Technology · Engineering
…hot afternoons, cold snaps, convoys of heavy trucks, lightning near the cable anchorages, a maintenance van parked on top of a strain gauge, and a sensor whose cable had been chewed through by rats. The thresholds…