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Chamorros are not minorities — we are indigenous

THE U.S. Department of Education recently announced it will terminate funding for Minority-Serving Institutions, including Northern Marianas College’s Asian American, Native American, Pacific Islander Serving Institution programs. These grants have supported mentoring, tutoring, and transfer opport…
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The psychopath in the Oval Office

OUR tourism industry, mostly consisting of Koreans since Covid, has been on life support. Trump just killed it when his thugs raided the Hyundai factory in Georgia and put over 300 Korean citizens in jail for several days. Large demonstrations against the U.S. government have been taking place in S…
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BC’s Tales of the Pacific ǀ Slouching towards Gomorrah

BC Cook “THINGS fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/ Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/ The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned;/  The best lack all conviction while the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity.//  Surely some revelation is at hand;…
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Remembering Charlie Kirk

THE news of Charlie Kirk’s murder came as a complete shock. It felt unbelievable. I had followed him for a very long time and especially appreciated his interviews with college students. He was frank, bold, and fearless in defending both our country and his Christian beliefs. Of course, I also hear…
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OPINION ǀ For the love of education

Jim Rayphand Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are strictly that of the writer and do not explicitly or necessarily reflect, nor represent the policies and position of Northern Marianas College. BY some random stroke of dumb luck, I find myself gainfully employed in the t…
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Cold truth

Backward march! INTERESTING choice of words by the education commissioner. The CNMI is going backwards in education, he said, referring to PSS’s shrinking budget. Sadly, this is true not only in education. More than two years ago, the CNMI leadership decided to cast its lot with the feds and to “tr…
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Variations ǀ Training, education, workforce

EDUCATION and the workforce were among the “hot topics” discussed by political scientist Edward C. Banfield in his brilliant 1974 book, “The Unheavenly City Revisited.” Among other things, he wrote that a “distinction should be made between a ‘trained’ worker and an ‘educated’ one. The trained work…
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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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