Editorials

If only because of its sheer size — the UC system covers 285,000 students over several campuses — others are bound to follow. The recent decision by the Board of Regents was taken, as are so many decisions in academia these days, in the name of equity and diversity. Requiring SAT scores, the argume…

There is much talk about peaks being reached, trajectories leveling off, incidences upward or downward, vaccines in the works, phased reopenings of businesses. But nobody can say with authority when the danger of the virus will be gone, or that it won’t return later with greater virulence. If one h…

I think she may be. True, it’s early days. She was elevated to the position only in April and presided over her first briefing on May 1. But so far her tenure has been glorious. Despite having attended both Georgetown and Harvard, where she took a law degree, she remains quick-witted, forthright an…

Points to ponder DURING the recent Fiscal Response Summit, an economic advisor with Graduate School USA compared the CNMI’s financial crisis with what, he said, the Cook Islands had experienced in the 1990s. The Cooks, he added, “tended not to set money aside and they relied on borrowing…. So there…

But the virus is still with us, so the carefully reopened economy will be less efficient than the pre-pandemic economy. We all hoped for a smart reopening, with thoughtful workplace and social protocols and a robust public-health response to stamp out the embers of the novel coronavirus. We hoped t…

I say, a wonderful song, “Queen of the May” in memory of a wonderful Lady, Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ.  And the song?  I say it was composed in Mary’s memory.  And it is one of several, honoring  the Blessed Virgin Mary.  But the Catholic community here won’t have the chance to ho…