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YOU are familiar with the traditional ceremony of a funeral at sea. When a sailor died the body was enclosed in canvas or sewn in a blanket and laid on a plank. The captain said a few words, read from the Bible, usually that part in Revelation that speaks of the sea giving up her dead, the sailors …

FOR decades, too many in the CNMI have internalized a dangerous myth — that if we speak up, we are somehow “biting the hand that feeds us.” That myth has kept us silent while billion-dollar decisions are made about our seabed, our islands, and our future.

The Truth is WE need to Reform the CNMI, as citizens WE need to DEMAND an “Era of Constructive Progressivism” as it has been the lack of planning which is a plan for failure compounded by the destructive actions & lack of action that has been slowly killing the CNMI with our Economy & Quali…

I am not a legal expert. I am simply someone who understands the vision my grandparents’ generation had when they helped shape the Covenant into what we live under today. I grew up appreciating the protections they negotiated so Chamorros, Carolinians, and the larger community could move forward on…

IF you love the Pacific as much as I do, you are interested in not only enjoying it but learning about it and preserving its beauty and diversity for future generations. One of the best organizations doing that is HURL, the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory. According to their website, www.soest.…

Listening to him, I realized he is the first public figure I’ve heard explain geopolitics without even mentioning the word.

THE Truth is the “Mining Issue” is just part of OUR evolution as humans on earth who are literally using up the natural resources on the planet and the search for minerals is not going to stop. However, I commend Gregorie Michael Towai for his editorial on mining that offered an alternative to mini…

THE Titanic is nowhere near the top of the list of deadliest shipwrecks in history. If the 1,500 who died in that disaster are tragic, what would we say about the 4,400 who died on the Doña Paz? When the Doña Paz sank in the Philippines in 1987 it became the deadliest maritime accident in history.

FOR thousands of years, the people of the Marianas have lived surrounded by the ocean. It has provided food, culture, identity, and a connection to the wider Pacific. Our islands were built with the ocean at the center, yet after all these millennia, we are only now beginning to realize the full ec…

THE Truth is WE, Americans, are facing a REAL Existential (Empirical-Fact) Threat to OUR Democracy & Quality of Life under Trump.