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IN politics, especially during times of crisis, the best place to be is in the opposition or the minority bloc. You’re in office, but you’re not in charge — someone else is, and that someone can and will be blamed for most or even everything that is going wrong precisely because they’re in power. A…

Ambrose M. Bennett SEEING the article on “the businessperson of the year” inspired this op-ed about our “politics & politicians” in the CNMI and on the mainland of America, as WE should give credit, good & bad, too those it is due in our political system. But our politics of Republican are …

Jim Rayphand IT’S not often I get to experience (or rather witness and ponder) in real-time the significance and living example of the famous idiom to, “Give a man a fish…,” but I found myself doing exactly that during a traffic jam one recent Saturday morning on the south side of the island.  As i…

BC Cook 230,000.  That is the number of people killed by the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Indonesia in 2004.  It is one of the largest and deadliest disasters in all recorded history, yet we don’t even have a name for it.  Sumatran Earthquake/Tsunami, South Asian Earthquake/Tsunami, Boxin…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE TRUTH is, the People of the CNMI have been quietly blackballed by the Republicans which has been proven entirely too many times every time the GOP forces something down our throats that started with the casino and now it’s EVERYTHING else — for TRUE! But it should be duly not…

DEAR Congresswoman Kimberlyn King-Hinds: I am writing on behalf of taxpayers in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam regarding a critical situation where postal delays are severely compromising taxpayer rights and compliance capabilities in the territories. Through direct work …

Ambrose M. Bennett THE TRUTH is, Ambrose is a NEW phenomenon who intruded on the Local philosophy of many that “only locals can tell locals what needs to be done,” which is foolish as even the Bible tells us “WE can learn from “ants and even our children.” But like many famous intellectual, philoso…

HISTORY teaches us that poverty is the default state of humanity. In his outstanding book published in 1973, “The Conquest of Poverty,” Henry Hazlitt noted that “ancient writers have left us few specific accounts of” poverty because they “took it for granted. Poverty was the normal lot.” In ancient…

BC Cook “EVEN before we went ashore we could make out the giant human shapes.  Often rising above the horizon, silhouetted against the sky, they were majestic and eerie.  As we approached one it seemed to be alive and we waited to see if it would speak.  But the massive statues of Easter Island wou…

Ambrose M. Bennett FIRST, I do want to thank the CNMI leaders who created & signed the MLK Day law, and people like Joe Hill, Judge Govendo, and the late Judge Herb Soll and Dr. John Joyner along with too many others to  mention for helping to lead the charge, and being the recipient of the sig…