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BC Cook AROUND one hundred people live in the village of Adara, on the backside of Atauro Island.  It is a small piece of land near East Timor.  Times used to be good on Atauro. Rainfall came in abundance, which in turn allowed farming and livestock grazing.  Many people engaged in bringing forth f…

“THINK Like a Freak” is written by the authors of “Freakonomics,” University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner. Citing their research, they say that our biases — political, intellectual or otherwise — color our view of the world. They also found out …

Greg Borja IMPROVED access has been a priority for many organizations that fight for the rights of people with disabilities throughout the United States, and it is no different from the work being carried out at the Northern Marianas Protection & Advocacy Systems Inc. or NMPASI. Years ago, we c…

Jim Rayphand THE only thing I find difficult in my ongoing campaign for the seat of CNMI Delegate to U.S. Congress is talking about me personally. I have an almost visceral reaction to hearing myself even attempting to articulate what a good, competent person I am and some of the good I’ve been abl…

Ambrose M. Bennett JOE Palacios & Thomas Songsong bring out the “Ali in me” and I can easily take-on both, as no Commissioner nor the Director were around when I was doing the research and writing the first draft. The whole problem is the Senate threw away entirely too much of what I wrote, whi…

TROUBLED by the relentless degradation and public denouncement of the CNMI Cannabis Commission, and boastful claims of being the alpha-intellectual business master of cannabis and economics, I step forward to clear the misconception and address the insinuations from my perspective. It is time to co…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth of the matter is “politics-poli-tricks and more politics” WE have to suffer under and a great example is CPA & MPLT. The recent resignation of Mr. Ayuyu is just more proof of the poli-ticks &  poli-tricks at CPA that is run by ex-politicians and it stinks so bad…