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Variations ǀ Blind to the obvious

DANIEL Kahneman, a Princeton University psychology professor and winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, died on March 27. He was 90. According to the Wall Street Journal, Kahneman and his friend Amos Tversky, who died in 1996, “upended traditional economic assumptions that people consistently act …
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Dollar for a good cause

IT has been reported that Arianna Pando, a respiratory therapist at the Commonwealth Health Center, looked after Jesse Rivera when he suffered cardiac arrest that resulted in anoxic brain injury. Since then, Arianna has been a “guardian angel” to Jesse’s wife, Sharolyn Alvarez, and their two younge…
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Feelings on the flag

RECENTLY, a video circulated on social media showing the Commonwealth flag being burned. For many of us who watched the video, these emotions may have come to mind: shock, anger, disgust. To burn a flag usually is a statement of protest, and many groups and organizations have done it to make variou…
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New book

THE Tinian Public Library is hosting a book signing for our new book, “Seabees and Superforts at War: Tinian’s Critical Role in the Ultimate Defeat of Japan,” on Thursday, April 4, between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.  I will be there to make books available for only $25, a special for Tinian for this …
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Open letter to Senate President Edith Deleon Guerrero

I APPLAUD you for taking the extra step in addressing the issues facing the CNMI Department of Labor. You were once the CNMI DOL secretary and you faced a lot of dilemma within the department because your hands were tied. As a former resident department head for DOL Rota, I, too, faced the same iss…
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Open letter to CNMI leaders

STOP the oversight investigation and fulfill your obligation as Representatives and Senators. It’s understandable that finding ways to prosecute people involved in the mismanagement of funds especially federal funds should rest on the federal prosecutor not the Legislature. I understand that it’s t…
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BC’s Tales of the Pacific ǀ Headlines gone wild

BC Cook I RECENTLY read a news story with the headline, “China may be using Sea to Hide its Submarines.”  Well, yes.  Where else would they hide them?  Certainly not in the mountains.  It got a few of us talking about some of the wildest headlines we have seen, so I thought I would share a little o…
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Reckless behavior

IT only took one U.S. judge for the CNMI government to start paying their CUC bills and one federal judge for CNMI lawmakers to pay into the CNMI retirement system. After decades of squandering  Uncle Sam’s billions of dollars, we still expect him to help the CNMI, which is still way behind in comp…
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Barrel scrapers

Where’s the ARPA report? IT’S been over a year since the new administration promised to provide the public with a full accounting of the CNMI government’s ARPA expenditures. Prior to ARPA, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the CNMI government was facing budget deficits amounting to $64.8 mill…
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Variations ǀ Rhetoric vs reality

I’VE read the text of the speeches delivered by governor and the lieutenant governor at last week’s economic summit, and oh boy. Like most everything else involving the CNMI government, there is nothing new about holding an economic summit (federally funded usually) during an economic crisis (the l…
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