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The labour of repair rooted in tutelage and kinship, and the loyalties and discontents that surround repair worlds regulate social order. They recast questions of interdependence and difference in cities. Kolkata’s cargo-cyclists and repair workers who assemble and maintain these old vehicles redeem the city from its disrepairs. Their location and lives are read against the history of capital, contemporary infrastructure building and the logistics of labour. While tutelage fulfils the promise of labour for those who were previously excluded from it, the kinship fostered in Kolkata’s repa...

Published on: Friday, December 11, 2020 Text Size: Kota Kinabalu: Any spending purportedly for developing the tourism sector, right now, will be off-tangent if existing players could not survive the severe drop in business caused by the Covid-19 in the first place, said Kota Kinabalu MP Chan Foong Hin (pic). ADVERTISEMENT Expressing his support towards the call made by DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng to provide substantial financial assistance to tourism industry players, Chan urged the Tourism Ministry to convert up to RM94 million allocated to the Ministry as development budget into cas...

Down the pike which one or maybe bhor th more than one that you see as a legitimate chance? is it infrastructure? tax? select immigration policy? what do you think the best chance for progress is? >> i think we all want to see us rebuild america. if you talk to the american engineering society, they'll tell you we may have $3 trillion of infrastructure maintenance needs around this country. in my own state of minnesota we saw the bridge collapse into the mississippi river for sure we believe that is the right thing. it's got to be meaningful. if all it is is a tax cut for wealthy individuals, ...

Hasn't been the sbchl the reason there is not the interest there's a $52 billion state of repair backlog. it's maintenance. it's not building a new fancy high-speed rail line just bringing what we have into repair. the private sector is not going to take that $52 billion debt onto their balance sheets. so if we can address infrastructure issues we can move to a model seen in other countries where private companies build. for refusing to connect the doths between basic infrastructure maintenance and safety and efficiency is irresponsible. >> sean thank you, we appreciate it. whatever the toll...

And our freedom. >> bill: when you were the governor of the state you dealt with oil companies all the time. what was the most difficult thing that you had to deal with when you were having meetings with them face to face? >> believing that their perception of what the circumstances were in any situation that we dealt with them, whether it be a spill or lax infrastructure maintenance or the value of the resource that was being sold. in any of those issues. it was believing what they were telling me and my administration in terms of their perspective on what the facts were. now, here's where th...