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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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Regarding Article XII

I WAS born and raised on Saipan, yet I am not allowed to own land. I understand why, we can see what happened to the Hawaiians. I get it. I am not going to argue for repealing Article IX, but hear me out. There are thousands of people like me, living in the mainland who have made their careers and …
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BC’s Tales of the Pacific ǀ Shipwrecks of Chuuk Lagoon

BC Cook IF you ask scuba divers where the best wreck diving in the world is you only get one answer: Chuuk lagoon.  Chuuk has all of the things going for it that other islands do when it comes to scuba diving: coral reefs, a great variety of fish and aquatic plants, warm waters.  But it also has so…
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This and that

Finally IT took over a year before the administration and the Legislature can say that they will have to act soon to address the CNMI’s urgent fiscal challenges. They mentioned these challenges during the campaign season in 2022, and shortly after they were sworn in last year. They were supported b…
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Variations ǀ Recurring themes, forgotten realities

YOU can tell it’s election season already when you hear politicians say things that have been said in previous election seasons. Politicians today are, more or less, talking about the same old issues. And it seems that not a lot of us recall that in election after election, previous politicians — i…
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