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BC Cook THREE million.  That is the estimated number of shipwrecks on the ocean floor.  They range from the Titanic which sank a century ago to a Phoenician sailing vessel four thousand years old. The question for us is: what do we do with them?  In recent years the United Nations has sponsored tre…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE TRUTH of the matter is that it is OUR Economy falling off a cliff and this Governor and the next Governor will continue to be faced with stewardship rebuilding our Economy.  The stewardship over the need to rebuild our Economy, that has obviously been decimated by nature &…

IN November 2008, Variety informed its readers that more than 4,000 local residents had already moved to the states because of the economic crisis. This was according to a federally funded report conducted by Malcolm D. McPhee & Associates and Dick Conway on the economic impact of federalizatio…

Christopher Concepcion THIS year’s U.S. presidential election has taken a turn with President Joe Biden stepping down from the race this month and Vice President Kamala Harris gearing up to accept the Democratic Party nod to face off against former President Donald Trump.  An interesting turn of ev…

BC Cook “BLOOD from my fingers and wrists oozed out into the water.  That, I suppose, is what attracted the shark.” “I calculated the chances against me as, conservatively, a million to one.” As Ted Sierks plowed through the seas, racing between Los Angeles and Honolulu, he made the dreadful mistak…

Don A. Farrell The following is the text of the author’s welcoming remarks delivered Friday morning, July 26, 2024, at the American Cemetery, part of the Tinian, North Field, National Historic Landmark. GOOD morning, ladies and gentlemen. First, let me congratulate Mayor Edwin Aldan, his hardworkin…

FOR those wondering why the local economy is still in the dumps and, consequently, why the CNMI government is not collecting enough revenue, I suggest that you watch, in its three-hour entirety, the recent Senate Fiscal Affairs Committee hearing on MVA’s budget. (https://rb.gy/v6r0j1)    As everyon…

BC Cook FROM having traveled in Japan, I am sometimes asked to describe different aspects of Japanese culture.  Movie buffs want to talk about Toei Kyoto Studio, still used to shoot samurai-era films.  Sports fans are curious about baseball in Japan and how it differs from the American game.  Busin…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE TRUTH of the matter is I find myself saying THANK YOU more than anyone in the newspapers but yet I’m the pariah just like they (Republicans & Torres) are trying to do to Attorney Kingman. But I say on behalf of the many who can’t speak-out, THANK YOU to Attorney Kingman f…

TWO headlines from the July 12th issue of The Wall Street Journal: • “China Pays Price for Its One-Child Policy” • “Earth’s Population Should Peak Before Century” According to the Journal, the United Nations now “expects China’s population to drop to 639 million by 2100 from 1.4 billion today, a mu…