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THE Sun continues to rise in the CNMI and times are changing quicker than we can adjust with the pandemic but I will leave the firemen alone out of respect for Ed Propst and his appeal and respect for their right to not take the vaccine. The main reason I was pushing so hard for everyone to take th…

I SAY “bravo Mount Carmel School!” for providing junior students a series of comprehensive, interactive and multi-media lessons about the Holocaust. Like most historical events, the details of the unspeakable horrors perpetrated by the National Socialist German Workers’ aka Nazi Party seem to be fa…

WE can’t emphasize enough how the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. and the Governor’s Covid-19 Task Force have done a great job in establishing protocols that allowed the CNMI to manage the pandemic, save lives, and motivate us to work together in getting our economy back up and running. Our economy r…

THE Pacific in the 1860s was a wild place, full of explorers, seafarers, heroes, scoundrels, and decent people trying to make a living and raise good families.  The man known as Black Tom was a little of all of these. Tom began life as a slave in Delaware in the United States.  When his master whip…

THE Sun continues to rise on a New Day for the entire world with the vaccines coming on line yet there are People who would prefer to believe “supposition” (estranged beliefs & guess work) over the empirical science and facts. Supposition can never replace or be more justifiable and authentic t…

TODAY, as we face the crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic, looking back provides some perspective for a path forward. In 2006, amid a global financial crisis, Kumho Asiana acquired Laolao Bay Golf & Resort from UMDA, and in three years, it completed a $60-million golfitel facility in Kagman. In 201…

FIRST and foremost, I respect and support the desire and need for Locals to maintain some form of “permanent land ownership” and there is a way to do both — “protect Land-ownership AND guarantee the Right of every American to own their house/business land.” There will never be a unanimous consensus…

The following is the text of the author’s testimony submitted to the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources: HONORABLE Chairman Raúl Grijalva, Vice Chairman Jesus Garcia, Congressman Gregorio Kilili Sablan and Members of the House Committee on Natural Resources, thank you for inviting my testimo…

FACTFULNESS, says the book’s author, Hans Rosling, MD, is “the stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.” We don’t see the world as it is, he adds. There’s simply too much information for us to process. So we look at what we call reality through our…