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BASED on what they told voters during the campaign season, the CNMI’s newly elected officials knew they would “inherit” a, more or less, insolvent government. They told voters that the previous administration was overspending and/or misspending local and federal funds. They said the ARPA funds were…

IN an age gone by, President’s Day was a patriotic event celebrating President Washington’s birthday (February 22), the creation of the United States of America and the birth of democracy. However, many Americans wanted it to be President Lincoln’s birthday, February 12, in honor of the president t…

FROM the Maritime Executive comes this disturbing news: “The New Zealand Defense Force working in conjunction with law enforcement and customs has retrieved more than three tons of cocaine floating in the Pacific Ocean at what they believe was a “transit point,” for international drug smugglers. Ne…

THE TRUTH of the matter is WE need real REFORMS, as all of the Boards and Commissions are OVERPAID for the work they do. This is a great opportunity to begin REFORMING (overhauling) our government but I do want to commend the effort to try and create some kind of “pay-scheme” for the Casino Commiss…

“POOR Ike,” President Harry Truman supposedly once said, referring to his successor, a former five-star general. “It won’t be a bit like the Army,” Truman added. “He’ll sit here and he’ll say, ‘Do this, do that,’ and nothing will happen.” Throughout known human history, however, m…

MY brother, Jim, and I were cruising through the Federated States of Micronesia in Adaline a few years back when I decided to stop in and see Bob, an old friend who ran a scuba shop.  I won’t mention the island in order to protect the innocent, but it should be enough to know that it was near Chuuk…