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PREPARED by a team of economists and other experts, the Marianas Economic Roadmap includes the results of a community survey conducted from Nov. 14 to Dec. 5, 2024. The confidence level is 95%, and the margin of error is ±4.35%. The results are presented in five sections: • Attitudes about the resp…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is the mainland of America and here in the CNMI is facing a “Storm of Evil deadly bent on destroying the American Dream for All People of Color” which includes Chamorro/Carolinian Americans, and a real Tsunami is coming as the waters are already receding. The question i…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is it seems our Delegate is really asking the Feds to solve our problem AGAIN when I’ve been offering a PROVEN Workforce Transition Plan for years. The U.S. Dept. of Education sent me to Mexico to do a “Comparison Study of Mexico & the CNMI” where I learned about Me…

BC Cook COMPARED to most places around the world Hawaii has been unified for a very short time.  Like many island groups throughout the Pacific, it proved difficult for one island chief to conquer another island, let alone the entire island chain.  Each island answered to a local chief, and though …

Steve Jang SAIPAN is beautiful — no doubt about it. But in today’s cutthroat tourism market, beauty isn’t enough. Visitors from Japan, Korea, China, Guam, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan aren’t just chasing beach photos — they want something real. They crave stories, flavors, healing spaces, and pl…

IN an article posted recently by the American Institute for Economic Research, Vladimir Snurenco, an economics instructor at Calvin University in Michigan, looked into what economists call “benefit cliffs.” He said these occur “when earning slightly more — through a raise or extra hours — leaves pe…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is Ambrose has been promoting Change & Progress for over two decades, yet my critics want readers to think I’m promoting chaos, as “Protesting is not Chaos, its Progress FOR the People.” I’m just thankful my Op eds reach thousands and so darn glad my critics are hid…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is Politics is both “singular & plural” and both “an Art & Science,” which is taught in Highschool Government & Economics courses. Clearly, having twofold meanings in politics’ “purpose & execution” that can often be diametrically opposed makes for gover…

IT’S insane how Star Wars got it first. “Andor,” a magnificent show depicting oppression and rebellion in a way that is very timely, contains the hauntingly relevant quote: “The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it, and that is the real trick of the Imperial Thought Machine. It…

BC Cook OVER the past two weeks we have followed Captain James Cook on his extraordinary voyages around the world.  He brought the islanders of the Pacific Ocean into constant, direct contact with the rest of the world, and because of that his name has been praised and cursed.  One voyage of discov…