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Politics, at its worst, merely magnifies human failings. Humanity is deeply flawed, and through politics we choose which of our fellow flawed humans will govern the rest of us — then expect things to improve.

If the funding is there, why are retirees being told their payments may stop? Why is fear being placed on their backs? Why are the administration and current legislative leadership not being clear with the people?

THERE is a complexity to caregiving that is difficult to fully understand until you have lived it yourself.

What is to be done? Has the CUC done everything possible to reduce their costs, or do they continue to carry operational bloat that drags them down?

In our trove of writings we have a memoir of a physician, Dr. John Coulter, who spent a great deal of time among islanders. Through the pages of his account, “Adventures in the Pacific,” the cultural exchange is fascinating.

“Forming your worldview by relying on the media would be like forming your view about me by looking only at a picture of my foot.”

The CNMI’s greatest leadership challenge is not age. It is trust.

WHEN Super Typhoon Sinlaku struck the CNMI, it left behind more than damaged homes, downed power lines, debris-covered roads, and a long road to recovery. As with every major disaster, it also revealed something deeper about us as a community. Disasters have a way of stripping away appearances and …

A NEW debate rages around the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the large swirl of trash floating around in the north Pacific above Hawaii. Just when we thought we were on our way to mitigating and even reducing the trash pile, some environmentalists want to save it.

The complaints of today had been heard long before. The same was true of the “solutions,” which were often presented as though no one had ever thought of them — or tried them — before.