Marianas Variety On-Line Edition

Short and not-so short takes
IT is misleading — I’m probably in a good mood; otherwise I would have said moronic — to say that the proposed federalization of local immigration would “eliminate the nonresident ....(See details)

Editorials
THE chairman of the Board of Education just made the most powerful argument for term limits when he put forward yet another argument for the Public School System to be exempt from the law requiring that the government hire U.S. citizens...(See details)

Dear Martin
WILLIAM Styron died last year. You remember him as the white southern gentleman from Virginia who was accused of being a racist for stealing the Black Panthers’ thunder in his book, “Confessions of Nat Turner...(See details)

Ridiculous
DANNY Aquino’s comments in Friday’s Variety about the “tyranny” of the U.S. over the CNMI are almost too silly to comment on, but repeated ridiculous statements should not go on without response. ...(See details)

What? You prefer federal immigration?
THERE are lots and lots of talks about preference to federal immigration over CNMI immigration control. And maybe they are correct but I think it depends on the issues. Yes, you can work; receive residence status and other privileges the federal ....(See details)

An opportunity for the NMI
SPEAKER Nancy Pelosi has bowed to pressure from her colleagues and the media about H.R. 2 — the bill that proposes an increase in the federal minimum wage and also to extend the federal wages to the CNMI but not to American Samoa. .(See details)

ManChahaga’-hu, Taotao-tano Marianas
Danny Aquino’s letter does not leave much to our imagination of what “White America” is all about. America’s leadership is neck deep in Democracy manure. American Democracy is not “one size fits all”..(See details)

For the people
THIS is a cry. This is a cry for help, answers, understanding, hope, and change. Please forgive my ignorance. I am young, inexperienced and simply don’t know everything....(See details)