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)

Deja vu in a different sense
I READ an article from Friday’s edition dated Jan. 12 titled “Wage Hike Passes U.S. House.” In that article I took some lines to use as example for this article of mine which read “Unlike the U.S. economy,...(See details)

A ‘free and sovereign’ NMI?
WE note that Mr. Jose U. Garrido (a.k.a. Joe Garrido, chairman of Guam’s Decolonization Commission’s free association task force) is again clamoring to part company with the United States of America. ...(See details)

Tread ever so lightly
TAN Candelaria feels rather sad maybe tongue in cheek on this matter because she knows and has a comment or two to make. She is referring to the impending minimum wage dilemma that hit the CNMI ....(See details)

Failed policy
KUDOS to Vice Speaker Justo Quitugua for dissuading the chairman of the Board of Education from returning to a failed policy of hiring nonresident teachers, simply because of current, synthetic, budget problems....(See details)

Bad business practices equal less revenue
I HAD the unfortunate circumstance while at a major downtown Garapan hotel of encountering the fairly common bad business practice of being told, “I’m sorry, we don’t accept checks...(See details)

A day on, not a day off
ON January 15, 2007, Saipan observed Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday. MLK Day is held in observation of the national change that Dr. King affected during his short life....(See details)

To the good people of Rota
I WISH to share reflections on the critical juncture facing our island and our commonwealth. As one of the commonwealth’s founding fathers, and as a former lt. governor, a legislator for many years,...(See details)

Saddened
I AM saddened but understand the party (political) decision that led Delegates Madeleine Z. Bordallo of Guam, Donna M. Christensen of the Virgin Islands and Eni Faleomavaega of American ...(See details)

A few thoughts on what could be done to improve the quality of life in the NMI
AT a luncheon meeting I had with several CNMI residents on Wednesday, Jan, 10, we were discussing what the people of the commonwealth could do to assist in improving the quality of life in the CNMI....(See details)