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I DON’T think there is a single voter who can say “WE the People haven’t been TRICKED by these Republicans” over the past two decades and that applies multiple times to the present Torres Administration. The funny part for me is they are still running the same old politricking plays that have kept …

LIKE Pearl Harbor, the Kennedy assassination and the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger, the September 11 terrorist attacks are seared permanently in our collective minds.  Anyone over 30 years old can likely tell you exactly where they were and what they were doing on that fateful morning…

IN late August, we received the great news that the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration awarded a $19.6 million grant to the CNMI Department of Finance.  The grant will be used to build a new Economic Business Center for the Marianas and to acquire a new financial mana…

WHAT were they complaining about in the NMI 49 years ago? At the time, the NMI was still part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands administered by the U.S., and Saipan was the seat of the TT government which was the main employer of local residents. As the Nathan Report noted in 1966, unde…

I THINK most of us with KNOW there is a constant battle between “good v evil” and politics is no exception. Robert Hunter and others have constantly attacked private citizens and continue to attack me in the Comment Section that seems to go “un-checked” by ethical standards. For years people have b…

IF there is one TRUE & Common Concern that WE all share, it is for the CNMI to become a Better Place to live with a much Better Economy. The only way WE the People can achieve this is with a BETTER Government.  Everyone with common knowledge and common sense have to KNOW that the Republicans ha…

CRUISING over the waves, course set for the shores of the earthy mound I call Grandpa’s Island, I am encouraged that so many others share my love of the sea.  I gave the island that name because it is where my grandfather took me when still a boy and made me both a man and a sailor.  Around its sho…

“Like the Republicans, I can make all sorts of promises….” — 1981 NMI Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate 1981 was a gubernatorial election year for the brand new U.S. Commonwealth of the NMI. The Republican Party nominee was a popular senator from Saipan. As for the Democrats, there were thre…

WE’VE seen positive development in our economy and labor force in the past months. People are queueing in stores to use their stimulus cards, local businesses are recalling back their workers or giving them extra hours to cater to the increase in business activity, while government agencies have al…

THE time has truly come for the People stop watching and to “speak-up & demand MORE” from our Governor. The Department of Commerce doesn’t need 80 million dollars which is why many of us regular folks are complaining and want MORE!  Just think, us-folks-in-the-cheap-seats only got 25 million of…