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FOR years I have been giving readers excellent examples of how these Republicans have continued to put OTHERS before their own People and it just continues to get worse and worse. The recent Tourism Bubble is another new example of how this Governor put South Koreans first over Locals. This past Sa…

IN a recent op-ed, the Saipan mayor recalled that in the Trust Territory days, each village had a commissioner who made sure that homes were clean. Today, there is a “beefed up” anti-littering law, P.L. 19-53, that is supposed to be enforced by BECQ, DLNR, DPW, the mayor’s office, the zoning office…

LAST weekend, empty beer bottles and bags of food were left on one of the benches at Micro Beach. This disappointing sight, along with other incidents of people carelessly leaving their trash for someone else to pick up, is a common occurrence. The Governor’s Council of Economic Advisers has spent …

I HAD planned to address the Gaslighted Polls in the Variety on the Marianas Agupa Show this past Saturday but the power was out and the show was canceled, so here it is. The polls in the Variety are indeed genuine attempts to gauge what the general public is thinking. When I saw the results of the…

THINKING of Saipan’s future, I am not as bleak as others.  In fact, I am quite optimistic about the ability of Saipan to recover from its Covid-induced economic woes.  I recently wrote down a list of things Saipan has in its favor, assets both tangible and intangible that could pave the future with…

A LARGE number of voters are waiting and wondering WHEN will our leaders LISTEN and even give Ambrose a real chance given my “I TOLD THEM SO” revelations! Well, I’m here to tell them it’s not so much that I offered bad or ridiculous ideas as it is the FACT that I’m not a Local, which screams of rac…

I’M sure most readers have been “disciplined” at one time in their life for something which should also be the standard practice for dealing with our elected leaders. I am now a permanent fixture on the “English Version” of the Marianas Agupa Show and I’m not there for Ambrose Bennett’s fame and no…

“If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.” — H.L. Mencken MANY of us are either hopeful about or frustrated with politics for the same reason: we believe it can solve society’s problems. Many of us believe that if we elect the “ri…

ON Sept. 20,  Rota Mayor Efraim Atalig, representatives from the office of Tinian Mayor Edwin Aldan, representatives from the Marianas Visitors Authority, the Public School System, and I met with the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisers and listened to the presentation on its newest initiative —…

FROM the files of the Cold War comes this strange but true tale of Pacific mayhem.  The current tension between China and the United States is not the first time Pacific nations felt squeezed between giants.  Not so long ago, the U.S., facing a different adversary, contemplated its Pacific friends,…