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A farmer has a horse that is loyal and dependable. In fact, the man could not live or feed his family without it. One day the horse ran away and all the villagers said it was terrible, to which the farmer shrugged and said “maybe.”

Birthright citizenship is not a policy created by the CNMI government, nor is it something the Commonwealth can selectively suspend.

One local mother told Variety it was difficult to comfort her youngest daughter, who was very close to her 23-year-old brother, a private first class in the U.S. Army deployed to the Persian Gulf. “Every time she sees an airplane, she shouts, ‘There is my brother!’ When the phone rings she thinks w…

These are important conversations. Not because the business community alone needs to hear them, but because the entire community should understand the magnitude and the causes of the issues affecting everyone’s lives.

Fuel prices are not determined only by what happens at the local pump. They are shaped by a chain of upstream costs: crude oil production, refining, storage, marine insurance, tanker availability, shipping routes, port congestion, and wholesale benchmark pricing.

THE Truth Be Told, I have nothing against the Independents Rep. Attao & Speaker Villagomez but like many I’m still waiting to see WHAT they are going to do FOR the People & Commonwealth.

We often talk about the legacies of presidents and world leaders, judging them as good or bad through the lens of history. But legacy is not just something for famous people. It is something deeply personal. What legacy do we pass to our children and grandchildren?

For island communities like ours, where the ocean is central to culture, livelihoods, and food security, reducing transparency and consultation in decisions affecting the deep ocean should raise serious concerns.

IN recent weeks we talked about a plague that infects the islands and many parts of the world. Violence within the home has reached pandemic proportions, but the most tragic thing is that, unlike many diseases that attack the body, domestic violence is preventable.

There is something Orwellian about the U.N.’s relationship with the English language. “Colony,” it seems, is now like “fascism,” “racism,” “poverty” and “socialism” — words that no longer mean what they once did, but instead denote whatever we want them to mean.