Marianas Variety On-Line Edition

Life after ‘ice’
ALEXANDER “The Colonel” Sablan is a local household name. As a radio announcer, disc jockey and recording artist, his voice used to be heard all over the islands on Sundays — in homes, at family gatherings and ....(See details)

In deep
F the year about to end teaches us anything, it is this: we should stay clear of failed policies that contributed to our current woes. The economic future doesn’t look very good. The new year promises to bring more hardship for the people of the ....(See details)

Real change
HAPPILY, the end of the year brings many other things into sharper focus. The leadership of two legislators comes to mind — Stanley T. Torres for challenging the utility rate increases, as well as the manner and methods by which this increase ...(See details)

Paging CRMO
AS things teeter on the edge, the Coastal Resources Management Office pursues small boat and canoe owners lined up along Saipan’s west coast. Most agree that because these boats are not a nuisance and add...(See details)

Tinian expenditures
THANK you for your articles on the expenditures of the Tinian municipal fund. Unfortunately, there is no public information from the local Tinian administration, so the people of Tinian know no...(See details)

We can do something
MY dear friends, much has been written about the sad state of the CNMI economy. Every day in the local papers, there is more bad news: JAL pulling out, Concorde shutting down, power bills going up,....(See details)

Tan Candelaria’s 2007 outlook
FIRST, Tan Candelaria is wishing that Ben and Tim would be more successful bringing in investors to our CNMI and she thinks that it would happen soon. Then she said, “Oh my god, gasoline had been hiked up...(See details)