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FROM the archives: Roughly 250 years ago, the United States and Great Britain partnered to become the dominant center of power on Earth. It started ironically enough, when one declared independence from the other, but since then their mutual interests have never seriously been in doubt. Over the en…

THE TRUTH of the matter is the “scatter-brain approach to rebuilding our Economy” that I wrote about was not just supposition but indeed FACT! The Governor wanted to focus on Japan but it seems the GOP that are left is taking the lead when they (Ralph & Crew) were the ones who killed our Econom…

THREE days before Javie Milei was sworn in as Argentina’s president, the Wall Street Journal reported that “El Loco” — his nickname, “the crazy one” — was already taking “a softer tone….” That shouldn’t be a bad thing. Governing is vastly different from campaigning. And we’re talking about governin…

TWO couples sharing a remote island in the Pacific, the first returned to Hawaii in the other couple’s vessel and the second couple was never seen again, alive.  What happened on Palmyra?  Now we know some of the truth. Palmyra lies 1,200 miles south of Hawaii and is a lonely outpost sometimes occu…

A police officer with gun drawn stands vigil outside G.B.’s house during the long hours of the armed man’s reign of terror in Chalan Kanoa. AROUND this time of year, 1983, Saipan’s biggest news story was about a repeat offender with a submachine gun and other firearms. What followed was…

THE TRUTH of the matter is our leaders are NOT as unified as they need to be if the CNMI is to gain any real footing & synergy (forward progress) in addressing our Economy which dictates to a high-degree the quality of life in the CNMI. WE the People are witnessing the same old “one-man show” t…

THE Governor’s bi-weekly Cabinet meeting was missing a distinct voice this past Friday and the Governor began the meeting with a call “for a moment of silence for the late Ross Manglona” who passed away earlier in the week.  I didn’t know him well, but he certainly had a captivating voice and a see…

THE TRUTH of the matter is “if WE (the CNMI) didn’t learn the lessons taught by history then WE are DOOMED to make the SAME MISTAKE(s),” and believe me that has happened entirely toooooo many times in the CNMI since my arrival here in 1989, as the-powers-that-be have yet to learn much of anything I…

TO regular readers of this column, the Outlaw Ocean Project is a familiar term.  That group of journalists works hard to expose injustice and inhumanity on the high seas, and the primary culprit of so much misery is the Chinese fishing fleet.  Dr. Ian Ralby at the Center for Maritime Strategy has w…

THE TRUTH of the matter is the people of the CNMI are extremely disconnected from the actual activities and ownership in our government, as things are just being left-up to the powers that be without any form of input or protest BY the People. There was a time when Public Hearings really meant some…