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Many of us believe that those who assume positions of power will act with greater wisdom, prudence, and foresight than “ordinary” citizens — as if leaders suddenly cease to be self-interested individuals driven by personal incentives or ideological biases.

THE Truth Be Told, the CNMI would be a very different place IF NOT for African Americans who waged the war for EQUALITY in America, as the indigenous people of the CNMI are also People-Of- Color who are in the SAME Boat with Blacks.

A Special Prayer for Lino Mettao Olopai, an ‘Ordinary man who was God’s Extraordinary Gift to his Family, his Carolinian Culture and the CNMI’ – R.I.P!

I AM writing this in a quiet moment, with tears still finding their way down my face, trying to put into words a loss that feels far larger than language.

SOMEONE once said that the secret to writing a bestseller is simple: convince people we’re doomed. My own take is that we are “fascinated” by the idea of doomsday because of our awareness of our own mortality — and our reluctance to imagine this world continuing without us.

THE Truth is WE are seeing the Delegate & Chamber trying to TELL the Feds “What they should or should-not DO,” but it’s unacceptable for Ambrodamus to OFFER Solutions, which would be FUNNY if it wasn’t so serious.

THE Solomon Islands’ decision to withdraw from the Miss Pacific Islands Pageant, together with the Kandit News letter titled “A Letter from a Little Chuukese Girl Who Hopes She Belongs,” should give our region reason to pause. Taken together, they reveal a reality many Pacific Islanders know too we…

THE Truth is Ambrodamus was RIGHT about the “adverse effects of the mainland migration,” which I started warning about in the late 1990s. Truth-be-Told, WHY does it take over two decades before a “high-level official to confirm that Ambrodamus was right about OUR Workforce & PROGRESS — Bigotry!

YOU are probably aware that this question has been argued for hundreds of years. Although the Americas were already inhabited, we are curious to know who were the first to land on the shores on the eastern edge of the Pacific.

As scholar and writer Francis X. Hezel, SJ once observed, that period “represents the height of economic development in the islands. Never before or since have the islands been fully self-supporting.”