Editorials

Basically, the government killed it in favor of urbanism and the agricultural-industrial processed food complex. It’s time to rethink those policies and solve homelessness at the same time. That’s right, we can have 100% (everyone who wants to work will be able to), zero homelessness, and an (osten…

I’ll borrow a term from an analyst of the European Union: sophisticated state failure. Take Mr. Biden’s climate speech. Its most quoted line: “When Donald Trump thinks about climate change, the only word he can muster is ‘hoax,’ When I think about climate change, the word I think of is ‘jobs.’ ” Wh…

God is giving world leaders a deadly ultimatum: do your jobs honestly and morally — and just maybe, things will get better. But that remains to be seen today.  Let me ask you folks a question. Do you think it’s appropriate for a banker to gamble your money in Las Vegas without you the taxpaye…

He said he had three things to say. But the text of the prepared speech covered only one — the assurance of a fair investigation of the incident and the promise of justice for the slain soldiers. The President spent much of his off-script remarks offering a glimpse of what preoccupies him at this p…

Almost two years later, her fame is global; everybody knows her name, climate activist or climate change denier, politician, or janitor. The relentless rise to international fame for this teenager — becoming Time Magazine’s Person of the Year in 2019 — was cut short only by the corona pandemic. Med…

The symbols and exemplars of American society are now the objects of an unprecedented iconoclastic purge. What started as another iteration of perennial and often reasonable calls to dismantle statues of Confederate leaders has metastasized into loud denunciations of American icons such as Washingt…

MISTER Speaker and colleagues: As many of us saw from the Department of Public Safety’s budget hearing yesterday Wednesday, July 15, 2020, the Commissioner threw a bit of a tantrum when asked about nepotism in his department. He acted in a way that is unbecoming of his position and disrespectful no…

Such stories and articles should be extremely disturbing to all the people of the Commonwealth. These allegations and stories about the abuse and misuse of public funds, if indeed true — on the surface — point to acts of corruption by CNMI government officials, and — below the surface — likely invo…