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OPINION ǀ Truth 89: Bliss with Dichotomies & our Dems!

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is the CNMI is caught in dichotomies (contrasting issues) that WE can’t resolve due to Our-Fathers-in-Washington and too much backroom-bigotry among many of our leaders, not the People, that rules over common sense & ethical governing that too many leaders fail to s…
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BC’s Tales of the Pacific ǀ Phantom islands and lost cities

BC Cook “EVERYONE knew the stories.  Our parents told us about the cities of gold and the lost civilizations with advanced technology. They were always happier and healthier than us.  It was the stuff of legend, tales spun by adventurers and sailors to amuse the locals, but few believed they were t…
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A disastrous policy

Piecemeal ‘transparency’ IN its latest financial report to the Legislature, the administration provided additional information about the pension obligation bond it issued, which was unknown to the public at the time. Now we’re told that the loan agreement was signed in December 2024, and the amount…
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Variations ǀ The math of it all

A BILL pre-filed in the Senate, S.B. 24-14, would “temporarily suspend the collection of certain charges by the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.” These include “all water electric charges and the percentage of the Fuel Adjustment Charge” or FAC “allocated to the payment of water loss, bad debt or delin…
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OPINION ǀ Truth 88: A sick democracy & no cure!

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is OUR Democracy is sick, and it didn’t just happen, as WE have figuratively been showing symptoms of our Economic & Social illness for years with each year revealing a progressive infection that was compounded by Covid and the failures of the present & previous…
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Coral is coral

THIS letter is to clarify the definition of kaskao (coral), which is used in building our roads and buildings. I am perplexed about this definition, because of what a Japanese engineer said to me when we were paving a new highway for the island of Saipan. The engineer said we don’t need to replace …
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Begging for dole-outs is not an ‘economic strategy’

A tale of two jurisdictions THE words “Puerto Rico,” “best practices,” and “territory economic opportunities” are seldom strung together in a sentence, except when one is being ironic. But according to the administration’s latest newsletter, the CNMI Department of Commerce participated in an “Econo…
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