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Ambrose Bennett THE TRUTH is the author of the letter to the editor about Rep. Propst and I have something in common, as neither one of us can get our leaders to listen, thus Me TOO! But to assert Rep. Propst is in a position to address and fix all the issues he listed was ridiculous and a pathetic…

LAST week, the House Committee on Public Utilities, Transportation and Communications conducted a public hearing on House Bill 23-92, which would amend the net metering law or P.L. 18-62, which, in turn, amended a previous net metering law, which amended the original net metering law, which was pas…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE TRUTH of the matter is Black History Month was established for good reasons, as the African-Americans of America were the only race to face slavery in America.  The founders of America may have founded our nation but it was Africans and their descendants who FOUNDED and estab…

BC Cook WE finish the incredible story of Jorge Cristobal, a Chamorro from Guam who fought in the Pacific War.  We pick up his account in the summer of 1944, just as he landed with the Marines on Guam, hoping to find his family: “I went in on the third wave landing at Asan Beach and I was right the…

A sonar image — reflecting varying levels of brightness — of the airplane-shaped object resting 5,000 meters underwater about 100 miles from Howland Island. THE Wall Street Journal first reported it on Friday last week. “Is This Amelia Earhart’s Long-Lost Plane?” the Journal asked. By Tuesday, at l…

Christopher Concepcion ON Feb. 16-17, 2024, the 20th Annual Tinian Hot Pepper Festival will take place in the Marianas highlighting Tinian’s famous “donne sali,” the island’s diminutive but famously potent hot pepper. The Tinian Hot Pepper Festival is one of a handful of annual signature events con…

BC Cook LAST week we began the incredible story of Jorge Cristobal, a Chamorro from Guam who fought in the Pacific War.  We pick up his account at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, as he stood on the deck of the battleship California, dodging bullets from attacking Japanese planes: “Most of us stayed o…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE TRUTH of the matter is Ambrose M. Bennett is going to “tell-it-like-it-tis” as we say in my culture and the truth is that it seems the CNMI is now committed to China, America’s rival and even foe, over Japan which is our ally. I can see a lot of students, who are now adults, …

“YOU should run for office.” This is usually what some concerned citizens would tell other concerned citizens who have strong opinions about how their government is run, and the problems it’s supposed to “solve” but won’t or can’t. As if a deeply held belief is all that it takes to succeed as an el…

BC Cook JORGE Cristobal graduated from high school on Guam in 1934.  What he did over the next several years set him up for a rendezvous with history.  Here, in his own words, is his incredible story: “After graduation my father decided to send me to Japan so I could learn the porcelain trade from …