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Dear people of the CNMI

POLITICAL season is upon us. The question now is: what will our Legislature, Gov. David M. Apatang, and Lt. Gov. Dennis Mendiola do to improve our islands’ economy? Will this be another State of the Commonwealth Address that focuses only on NMC, while overlooking the accomplishments and struggles o…
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OPINION ǀ A DUD Cannabis Commission & LIES!

Ambrose M. Bennett THIS is a special response to the Cannabis Commission & the deflecting & gaslighting LIES. The Truth is, our Cannabis Commission or CC is a DUD (useless), yet they are still in operation when it needs to be resolved like I wrote in the original draft. In his own words Mr.…
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Deadly consequences

IF you think you can normalize evil corruption, think again, because I will never allow you to keep fooling people. My job as a U.S.-CNMI journalist is to hold officials accountable for their ongoing corruption and to hold their feet to the fire. You may tell yourselves it’s okay to steal my grandm…
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Dear Commissioner Dr. Lawrence Camacho & BOE!

THE Truth is, I HATE doing this, but it has always been about “Students First” with me, as I truly tried to work with you Doc, and your office to get vitally needed “Locally Based Resources” to students and teachers. Need I remind you Doc that these “Locally Based Resources were created under the a…
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BC’s Tales of the Pacific ǀ Tambora, the greatest volcano

BC Cook WE have looked at volcanoes, tsunamis and other natural disasters in the recent past. The Tambora eruption of 1815 was the largest eruption in recorded history and possibly of all time.  Rather than talk about explosions, lava flows and tons of debris scattered by the blast (all of which I …
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OPINION ǀ Importing incompetence across the bureaucracy

EARLIER in the year, to forestall the continuing fall in his approval ratings in the face of increasing favorable numbers for the Vice President of the Philippines despite revelations about confidential fund misuse and a pending impeachment trial, Philippine President Ferdinand R. Marcos decided to…
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Golden opportunity

TEAM King Investments can repurpose the IPI casino building into a CNMI Pacific business and cultural center hosting a multitude of celebrations and events for the entire Pacific Basin. This will expand tourism, cultural, and business practices by inviting other islands to participate in each other…
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Variations ǀ Like the mechanical rabbit at the racetracks

EDWARD C. Banfield (1916-1999), who earned his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Chicago, was considered “one of the leading scholars of his generation.” He taught at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania and was an adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan. Radical students w…
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Do no further harm

Tell us something we don’t know DIVERSIFYING the local economy has been a topic of discussion in the CNMI since at least the late 1970s, and it led to the establishment of the garment industry in 1983. At its peak in 1999, the industry remitted $39.3 million (worth about $76.2 million today) in use…
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