Editorials

Amend the new vandalism law THE chief prosecutor’s comments about the new vandalism law reveal, once again, the gap between a bill’s goals and the actual results of its implementation (if and when implemented). In the case of House Bill 21-2, which is now Public Law 21-18, the intent is beyond disp…

Enough already THE same government that has shut down or imposed restrictions on businesses is now telling them to give their employees paid leave. And pay them with what? Sea shells?  Amid an alarming spike in the number of Covid-19 cases on Guam and the recent report of two cases of community tra…

Respect is timeless LAST week’s reinterment ceremony for the ancestral remains that were found  in Chalan Kanoa was meaningful, moving and much appreciated. HPO followed the old rituals based on historical records and announced that, henceforth, the CNMI will no longer consider ancient remains as a…

A land that’s free, a land so fair IF given a choice, most, if not almost all of us, would prefer to live in a nation where the world’s most lethal armed forces have to consult with the public before they can conduct training and other military activities.  Forty-five years ago, the people of the N…

See you in 2022 ELECTION-YEAR politics “works” mainly because not a lot of us remember what was said and done a year or two ago. (A decade ago? Forget about it. If you can’t Google it then it never happened.) And so everything old seems new, and every platitude sounds insightful. Campaign promises …

Ridiculous AFTER shutting down poker arcades, the government now wants them to pay, on time, the $6,000 license fee for each of the machines that they can’t operate. Robbers have to threaten deadly force to get what they want. The government will just send you a notice. To paraphrase Kevin Williams…

But don’t hold your breath FINALLY, we learn that there is a point to the recent “grilling” of the DPS chief — and that it wasn’t just about “nepotism” and related charges that have been the staple of (election year) political discourse since the post-World War II years. Yes. That long ago. In 1950…

Democrats have excused and emboldened them, and they’re now claiming the real problem is that federal law enforcement has intervened to restore order. Maybe the feds should leave and let the city put out its own fires. Peaceful protests broke out in Portland in late May in response to the killing o…

It’s hard to blame them. The former vice president may poll well, but his previous tilts at the White House had been disastrous. His 2020 campaign has been a string of awkward public gaffes and senior moments — the old boy just isn’t all there. Even his staff seem embarrassed by their candidate. Am…

Now, the authors of a 2019 PNAS article are disowning their research simply because I cited it. Psychologists Joseph Cesario of Michigan State and David Johnson of the University of Maryland analyzed 917 fatal police shootings of civilians from 2015 to test whether the race of the officer or the ci…