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THE recent announcement of a $48.6 million federal grant to fund clean heavy-duty vehicles represents a groundbreaking achievement for the CNMI, positioning the islands at the forefront of sustainability and innovation. This grant, secured through a highly competitive process involving all 50 state…

President Joe Biden shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a bilateral meeting, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, in Lima, Peru.  THE Heritage Foundation asked me to keynote a recent roundtable on its “Pacific Pivot” paper on Pacific Island strategic challenges.  I had planned to critique the…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is the Governor is making the smell WORSE trying to nullify Ambrose’s Check, (accountability challenge) that should be a “checkmate on his subterfuge” if Dems or Independents do their JOB and hold the Governor accountable, as it is their fiduciary Constitutional duty to…

BC Cook LAST week we looked in on the most famous mutiny in history.  What follows is the most incredible part of the story of the Mutiny on the Bounty.  Naked from the waist down, Captain Bligh was ripped from his sleep and brought on deck to face the mutineers.  Without much discussion Fletcher C…

HISTORICALLY, whenever Marxists — i.e., “Scientific Socialists” — assumed power, religion was either outlawed or placed firmly under the control of the regime, which, in turn, often transformed into a religion itself, complete with its own deities, saints, “sacred” writings, rituals, and festivals.…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is Ambrose was RIGHT and I’m SOOO darn glad Star Marianas decided to FIGHT to keep their business, as WE need both airlines but there are NO warriors fighting FOR the People, which is at the very CORE of the challenges to move forward and upward with our economy and qua…

BC Cook “I AM in hell!”  With those words Fletcher Christian, second in command of theBounty, justified his act of piracy, taking control of the ship, seizing his captain, William Bligh, and those loyal to him and casting them adrift in a tiny lifeboat in the expanse of the Pacific.  It is the most…

Erlinda C. Naputi Message from the PIALA President/PIALA Conference Chair Erlinda C. Naputi delivered during the Opening Ceremony of the 33rd Annual Pacific Islands Association of Libraries, Archives, and Museums Annual Conference held at the Guam Museum in Hagåtña, Guam on Tuesday, December 3, 202…