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Steve Jang SAIPAN is beautiful — no doubt about it. But in today’s cutthroat tourism market, beauty isn’t enough. Visitors from Japan, Korea, China, Guam, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan aren’t just chasing beach photos — they want something real. They crave stories, flavors, healing spaces, and pl…

IN an article posted recently by the American Institute for Economic Research, Vladimir Snurenco, an economics instructor at Calvin University in Michigan, looked into what economists call “benefit cliffs.” He said these occur “when earning slightly more — through a raise or extra hours — leaves pe…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is Ambrose has been promoting Change & Progress for over two decades, yet my critics want readers to think I’m promoting chaos, as “Protesting is not Chaos, its Progress FOR the People.” I’m just thankful my Op eds reach thousands and so darn glad my critics are hid…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is Politics is both “singular & plural” and both “an Art & Science,” which is taught in Highschool Government & Economics courses. Clearly, having twofold meanings in politics’ “purpose & execution” that can often be diametrically opposed makes for gover…

IT’S insane how Star Wars got it first. “Andor,” a magnificent show depicting oppression and rebellion in a way that is very timely, contains the hauntingly relevant quote: “The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it, and that is the real trick of the Imperial Thought Machine. It…

BC Cook OVER the past two weeks we have followed Captain James Cook on his extraordinary voyages around the world.  He brought the islanders of the Pacific Ocean into constant, direct contact with the rest of the world, and because of that his name has been praised and cursed.  One voyage of discov…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is this is my 123rd message of Truth, not to mention the other hundreds of Op eds & Letters to the editor, yet it still hasn’t sunk-in that “WE the People must CHANGE if the CNMI is to become a BETTER place to live & work” as the migration to the REAL America co…

“The idea seems to be, ‘That didn’t work, so let’s try it again.’ ” — William R. Easterly, “The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics.” RECENTLY in the U.S., a politician who promised to cut prices and raise wages won an election, and some people believe …