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Healthy living:A man, with his child in a baby carriage, jogs along the Beach Road pathway in Garapan. Photo by Mark Penaranda

US House to pass wage hike bill this week
CONGRESSMAN George Miller has introduced legislation increasing the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to 7.25 an hour, which will also apply to the CNMI where the minimum wage has been $3.05 an hour since 1996.... (Full Story)

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BOE wants its own compensation rules
DESPITE the government’s worsening financial condition, the Board of Education wants to have its own compensation rules, saying the application of a uniform rate for all boards and commissions will “hamper” its ability .....(Full Story)

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GUAM EDITION

Sen. Rory Respicio, D-Agana Heights, reviews documents in his office. Respicio yesterday sent a letter to Public Auditor Doris Flores Brooks requesting for a conduct of an independent analysis of the government of Guam’s general fund balance sheet “in order to get to the bottom of determining our true state of fiscal affairs.” Photo by Paul Blas

Local News — Guam

• Senators demand ‘true’ fiscal status report
• Late submission of document delays court ruling on EITC
• Guam ready for bond case hearing in Washington, D.C.
• Police probe pellet gun incident at middle school
• Limtiaco fosters federal ties
• Port to ask for fuel surcharge
• Calvo: Delinquent agencies face deappropriation
• $214K child support bank account still open
• GPA computer system down
• 2nd grader spells his way to island-wide competition
• Fuel contract won’t add to power cost
• 6 children abandoned for several days

Editorials/Columns/Letters

• Life, politics and policy
• We should learn from the NMI mess
• A necessary showdown?

  Sports
• Aguon, Duenas, Shimizu off to Hawaii swim meet
• Guåhan Grid Notes!:Resolutions!!!

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