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Variations ǀ An old Mesopotamian myth

TWO headlines from the July 12th issue of The Wall Street Journal: • “China Pays Price for Its One-Child Policy” • “Earth’s Population Should Peak Before Century” According to the Journal, the United Nations now “expects China’s population to drop to 639 million by 2100 from 1.4 billion today, a mu…
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Plain to see

Self-inflicted financial woes THE CNMI chief justice calls it a “fiscal tsunami.” To have zero funding for the judiciary’s “all others” budget is “totally unheard of,” according to an associate justice. You know what’s also unprecedented in CNMI history? A governor who insists on pursuing a fruitle…
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If we aren’t growing, we are dying

Del Benson WE are in a dark period for the CNMI.  Without investment we are dying. We all have friends and family who are either without a job or have left the island.  How many more families will leave for greener pastures.  How many vacant hotels do we have along our beautiful beaches?  How many …
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OPINION ǀ Is there no one else!?

Jim Rayphand IT is something of a mind-boggle to come so far and yet still be so far away.  Such is the case with my conditional plan to run for Congress, if I can lose a certain amount of body-weight in a specific amount of time.  My close friends have taken to asking for updates. “Inquiring minds…
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FEATURE ǀ More than a Marianas

The following essay won third prize in the Northern Marianas Humanities Council’s 2024 My Marianas Writing Contest. IN the Pacific Ocean, lies a group of neighboring islands called the Marianas. Among the fourteen islands, one of them is my home: the beautiful island of Tinian. The home of luscious…
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FEATURE ǀ Milestones

The following essay won second prize in the Northern Marianas Humanities Council’s 2024 My Marianas Writing Contest. “HERE you can try it on, just this once.” Mom smiles; carefully she places the tedious necklace around my neck, across my shoulders. I feel the warm beads pressing against my skin. T…
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OPINION ǀ Truth 60: Stuck in Reverse needing to go FORWARD!

Ambrose M. Bennett THE TRUTH of the matter is that it’s obvious the CNMI is stuck in reverse needing to go forward. Ever since the poli-tricking that killed La Fiesta the CNMI has being slowly going backwards economically with no end in site because there has yet to be any REAL REFORMS to make the …
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The lunacy and chaos going on today

I WOULDN’T say that what we experience or see in the global daily news today is amazing. I would rather say it’s ridiculous. It’s all about the narratives of desperation on the part of both parties’ power-hungry members. You go to college they abuse you. You go to the hospital they abuse you.…
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FEATURE ǀ From firewood to stove top

Pinakbet The following essay won first prize in the Northern Marianas Humanities Council’s 2024 My Marianas Writing Contest. BORN and raised in La Union, Philippines, in the early 70s, my mother’s childhood was marked by the rhythms of agrarian life on a rice farm. She toiled the fields planti…
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