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CUC aims to recover $9M fuel shortfall, adjust rates

Local News

THE Commonwealth Utilities Corporation plans to petition the Commonwealth Public Utilities Commission to lift the current Fuel Adjustment Charge stabilization order in an effort to better align electricity rates with actual fuel costs and global oil price trends.
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New law allows home-based food businesses

Local News

GOVERNOR David M. Apatang on Thursday signed into law Senate Bill 24-31, which aims to help struggling small businesses survive by allowing them to sell Non-Time/Temperature Control for Safety or on-TCS food prepared in residential kitchens. Authored by Senate Floor Leader Donald M. Manglona, S.B. …
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RB Camacho seeks re‑election as Saipan mayor

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SAIPAN Mayor Ramon “RB” Camacho said he will seek a second four‑year term, adding that he hopes to continue the public safety and community‑based initiatives that have defined his first three years in office.
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Lawmakers, Parks & Rec conduct cleanup on Airport Road

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PRECINCT 2 Reps. Danny Aquino and John Paul Sablan, Precinct 1 Rep. Roy Ada, and Division of Parks and Recreation Director Mike Cruz last week conducted cleanup and beautification activities along Airport Road.
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Regarding the FY 2025 fiscal report

Editorials

FOR the past few years, the administration’s annual fiscal report has read like 80% press release and only 20% useful information. The latest report is quite an improvement. It’s still a multi-page pat-on-the-back, but it now includes more pertinent details, some of which can be considered key data…
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Well, it could have been much worse

Editorials

CNMI leaders have no choice but to reimpose modest austerity measures that should not have been lifted in the first place
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Legalized fantasies

Editorials

IN his revised budget transmittal letter, the governor reminded lawmakers that they still had to approve additional funding for PSS and MVA.
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The economy, what else?

Editorials

SINCE its establishment in January 1979, the CNMI government has always sought “new investments,” including those involving agriculture and fisheries. Tourism, however, has remained the Commonwealth’s economic mainstay simply because these are tropical islands — they are tourist attractions already…
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Letters

Energy is the real foundation of economic development

Letters to the Editor

IF we are serious about economic development, we must start with an uncomfortable truth: nothing modern functions without reliable, affordable energy. Every thriving economy — past or present — rests on a stable power system. Without it, businesses stall, costs rise, and quality of life declines.
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From factories to the deep sea: A look back at CNMI’s economic strength

Letters to the Editor

FOR decades, many of us have proudly called the CNMI home. Today, the quiet in our tourist districts echoes a time when tourism wasn’t our only economic engine. We remember the garment factory era — when jobs were abundant, capital flowed, and our islands thrived.
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Opinions

BC’s Tales of the Pacific ǀ Silver Stash in Manila Bay (2)

Columnists

LAST week we discussed an incident in 1942 when Americans and Filipinos dumped millions of dollars’ worth of gold and silver into Manila Bay to prevent its capture by the Japanese. After transferring what they could to an American submarine the remainder was bagged and crated, then dumped in turbul…
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Why true socialism hasn’t been tried

Columnists

So what kind of socio-economic system is it that cannot be tried anywhere by any of its true believers, even when they wield absolute power and never hesitate to use it?
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Business

US may lift more Venezuela sanctions next week, Bessent says

Business News

SAVAGE, Minnesota (Reuters) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has told Reuters that additional U.S. sanctions on Venezuela could be lifted as soon as next week to facilitate oil sales, and that he will also meet next week with the heads of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank on the…
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The forgotten nuclear test victims in the Marshall Islands

Regional, World

MAJURO — Although evidence shows that the entire Marshall Islands was subjected to radioactive fallout from hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in the 1950s, there are three specific populations who were exposed to relatively high levels of radiation by United States government actions from the 195…
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National

Tens of thousands protest in Minneapolis over fatal ICE shooting

National

MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) — Tens of thousands of people marched through Minneapolis on Saturday to decry the fatal shooting of a woman by a U.S. immigration agent, part of more than 1,000 rallies planned nationwide this weekend against the federal government’s deportation drive.
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