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WE shouldn’t be too hard on politicians running for office. Regardless of their political beliefs, they have to say what voters want to hear, and they have to make the same old promises to voters who no longer remember or are unaware of the previous campaign promises made in previous election years…

IT’S safe to say the Governor puts on the Greatest Poli-tricking Shows on Earth, second only to his mentor Trump who has 2/3rds of all Americans extremely upset and displeased with his presidency and the days that followed. The Governor always seems to think he can just “talk-away the challenges we…

I SEE your $1.5 billion aid package and raise you… It has certainly been a dramatic week.  Fat Leonard escaped and was caught again.  Florida endured a schoolyard beating by Hurricane Ian.  The American vice president visited South Korea and was met by a flurry of nuclear missile tests by the North…

“What is freedom? It is the right to choose one’s own employment. Certainly it means that, if it means anything.” — Frederick Douglass AFTER almost three decades of reporting on, and writing about CNMI workforce issues, I’ve finally noticed that not a lot of “concerned” politicians and citizens are…

AS the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisers finishes its second year of activities, the task at hand for the council, the government, and the Marianas community is to work collaboratively toward the next era of possibilities for the economy and our lives here on these islands. GCEA has put itsel…

THE Governor continues to prove how corrupt and even narcistic with his defiance toward the People, Government Employees, our Laws and the Right-thing to do. The resignation of the Veterans Affairs Executive Officer Stanley T. Iakopo is sending “shock-waves” through the election political arena as …

The following is the text of  Northern Marianas College President Galvin Deleon Guerrero’s speech delivered at the State of Education Address on Thursday, Sep. 22, 2022 at the Saipan World Resort. MANY of you may be familiar with the parable of the Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley. As the story …

AFTER attending the State of Education Address on September 22, 2022, presented by the three key educational institutions in the CNMI — the Public School System, Northern Marianas Technical Institute and Northern Marianas College — I am optimistic about the direction of education in the CNMI.  Thes…

I HAVE just finished reading 1st Circuit Judge Gustavo Gelpi’s book: “The Constitutional Evolution of Puerto Rico and Other U.S. Territories (1898-Present).” For anyone interested in learning about the constitutional development and political history of Puerto Rico and the other territories of the …

RECENTLY, the Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders or PICL was convened at the East West Center in Honolulu. The PICL members included the heads of government from independent Pacific Island Countries, Pacific Island Territories, and the State of Hawaii. It not only offered a platform for regional…