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OF life’s great adventures, sailing solo ranks with climbing mountains or canoeing the Amazon River.  It is on many of our Someday Lists, but most of us will never achieve it.  For Kenichi Horie, sailing solo has become a way of life, so much so that he has checked nearly every box on the list and …

JUNE brings back many awesome memories of WWII. June 10, 1944. I distinctly remember what happened.  The United States Task Force 58 began the invasion of Saipan and Tinian.  U.S. aircraft began bombing Tinian and Saipan night and day.  Five days later, June 15, 1944, the western seaside of Saipan …

WHEN I was appointed to serve as the Northern Marianas Pacific Mini Games 2022 or PMG 2022 chief executive officer in April 2021, I knew there would be a lot of work to prepare for the first-ever PMG event hosted by the Northern Marianas. Nevertheless, I was up for the challenge to the stage an ama…

IT is usually “painful” to watch politicians talk — interact, I believe is the word — with voters. Like other members of the public, many voters lead busy lives. They have jobs, families or other more immediate, more pressing concerns. Hence, the main point of having a representative democracy is t…

I WILL never say I am having a bad day again.  I just finished the autobiography of Alistair Urquhart, a Scottish soldier in the Second World War.  What he experienced went beyond anything you have heard before, and we may never have heard his story, but as he neared the end of his life, he purged …

PEOPLE are always asking “which side are you on” but Rev. Al Sharpton posed the real question which is “not about choosing a side, but ASKING who is on YOUR-Side,” the Dilettantes or the People’s Party?  WE the People are living under a “Constitutional Democracy” that is designed to “keep ALL peopl…

HÅFA Adai and Tirow! June is a pivotal time for the Marianas. Many positive developments are taking flight, from the return of visitors to the Marianas to the start of the 2022 Northern Marianas Pacific Mini Games from June 17 to 25. The Marianas also has a new airline, thanks to a joint venture be…

WRITING for the Foundation of Economic Education, Joseph Kast of the Pacific Legal Foundation asked, “Can society be designed? Can an expert engineer alleviate people’s pains and struggles with a good-enough central plan and blueprint?” The most popular answer, throughout the ages, has been, “Yes w…

THERE are people who claim the Parties in the CNMI are not like the Parties on the mainland, which tells me, as a Social Science Teacher & Political Scientist, that they are NOT Political Scientist nor did the pay attention in their U.S. Government Classes in High School.  In fact, the politics…

IN Matang of old dwelt Nakaa the Judge, and he had lordship over all the people.  The spirits of Matang also bowed before him, for they feared to look into his eyes.  But no land ever seen was as beautiful as that land.  It was great, it was high, many were its mountains, all manner of trees were t…