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BC Cook IF one needed a boat capable of carrying them across the ocean with great speed and safety, you could hardly do better than a proa.  An outrigger sailing canoe, the oddly shaped proa is actually the perfect shape, considering the building materials and tools islanders had to work with, and …

AFTER covering, reading, studying, thinking, and writing about politics for the past 30 years, I now look forward to a non-election year — a time that used to be about everything else except the next election. This year, however, the “non-election” period lasted only about five months. Over a year …

THIS July marks 35 years since the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act or ADA — a monumental civil rights law that promised equality, dignity, and access to millions of Americans with disabilities. When President George H.W. Bush signed the ADA into law in 1990, he reminded us that “ours…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is our leaders continue to try and apply Band-Aids (half-solutions) to problems that need Surgery (Reformed)to fix. Given it is common knowledge Government needs to “downsize & cut cost” it is impossible to reconcile keeping 15 different Casino Commissioners when WE…

Arnold I. Palacios Jim Rayphand is the director of enrollment services at Northern Marianas College; however, the views and opinions expressed in this article are strictly his own and do not explicitly or necessarily reflect, nor represent any policies or position of NMC. FOR a man that I really di…

BC Cook EAGLE River is a suburban town a few miles north of Anchorage, Alaska, not the typical setting for gang activity.  Yet, despite its remoteness the town witnessed an increase in gang-related incidents as a group of mostly young men roamed the streets. The intrusions seemed random at first, b…

WHEN Philippine President Ferdinand R. Marcos delivers his State of the Nation Address before the incoming Congress at the end of the month, we are told that the president will focus on the impact of inflation on the economy. Two factors culled from the consumer price index and the basket of goods …

APPENDIX C of the Marianas Economic Roadmap is about a proposed CNMI Industrial Solicitation Program whose goal is to bring in new investors to the islands. No need for a new government entity. The Commonwealth Economic Development Authority is already “ideally positioned to lead this process” and …

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is there has been entirely toooo much “living-a-lie” in the CNMI which is the main reason prosperity has been so elusive, as our Political, Social, and Humanity Sins continue to mount with a Day-of-Reckoning being the “Mandate FOR Voters.” Retirees have been LIED to and…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is the GOP on the mainland & in the CNMI have become EXPERTS at “bloating society with lies & false perceptions” bamboozling Voters for years. On the mainland Trump has proven to be lying about everything from “Obama being an American, a stolen election, Economi…