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“The whole appearance of the ocean was like a plain covered with snow…  The scene was one of awful grandeur, the sea having turned to phosphorus, and the heavens being hung in blackness, and the stars going out, seemed to indicate that all nature was preparing for that last grand conflagration whic…

THE Governor just GAVE Sixto, who also helped Governor Fitial KILL the Retirement Fund, 80 million of OUR dollars to virtually manipulate at HIS discretion. It’s really tooooo much to give to Commerce alone when there is so many other things FOR the People that needs doing. The Governor is moving e…

ON August 21, more than 30 private and public organizations on Saipan were recognized as they joined the Hafa Adai & Tirow Pledge campaign that encourages stakeholders to preserve, perpetuate, and promote the indigenous Chamorro and Carolinian cultures and traditions. The Hafa & Adai Tirow …

THE recent release of the “Stimulus Debit Cards” is just more PROOF of how RIDICULOUS our Governor can get when it comes to taking care of HIS People. WE the People were already set-up to receive any money from the Local or Federal Government with a “Net-to-Bank or a Mailed Check” but the Governor …

IT seems that no one among elected officials would like to talk about it publicly, but one of them did recently. I’m not naming names because, by now, the official may have changed his mind about the urgency of saying out loud what other politicians would rather keep to themselves. Here’s what he s…

GLOBAL warming is one of the most pressing issues affecting our planet and all living things on it. It endangers life itself. This climate phenomenon — the earth’s atmosphere getting warmer and warmer — appears to have begun only within the past fifty years. Scientists have been admonishing us, for…

I ASKED a waitress for a cup of coffee without cream.  She said, “I’m sorry, we don’t have cream. You will have to get it without something else.”  Although annoyed, that day was a turning point for me.  Like Archimedes during his Eureka moment, or was it Eureka during his Archimedes moment, I stum…

I WAS wondering WHY the Governor was planning solely on him winning for the Republican Party to stay in control of the Executive Office and true to form the Governor and Republicans are preparing to execute the SAME old “power-play” they used when Governor Fitial was in trouble — they split into TW…

The author had the privilege of leading the first U.S. Marine Corps Reconnaissance Company deployed to Afghanistan, and was activated from the Reserves to deploy with the final U.S. Marine Corps unit in Afghanistan. This is his perspective. NO one will question if we take a knee this week, to refle…

THE late Rep. Ivan Alafanso Blanco once commented how the Public Private Partnership initiative of the Governor’s Council of Economic of Advisers allows people working in different capacities to come together and support the same cause — taking care of our islands. He saw the PPP campaign as a way …