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US constitutional laws & protocols

THE criminal activities happening in the United States are testing our lives, which are also under attack by Elon Musk and President Trump’s abuse of power. Americans are aware of what’s going on with the constitutional crisis we’re facing and are totally disgusted with Elon Musk and President Trum…
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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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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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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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Variations ǀ There is such a thing as free trade

ECONOMICS is fascinating — and infuriating. On one hand, it can explain a lot about the way we live, and how human society deals with livelihood issues. On the other hand, economic concepts are counter-intuitive. Viewing things through the lens of basic economics reveals that what seems simple on t…
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