As 2015 comes to an end—a year that saw a devastating typhoon that tested peoples’ resilience and humanity, an islandwide Internet outage, the conviction of a former governor who’s also the first in CNMI history to be impeached by the House of Representatives, unsolved...

One of my minor goals for 2016 is to learn more about rice. That’s right: rice. I eat it all the time but I don’t know anything about it. I have pal who is an agricultural economist and he asks how I can remain so concertedly ignorant about so many important topics....

We live in a world where we constantly search for the littlest of faults in everything. It’s the hamartia of humanity. But it is deeply saddening how we talk about altruism, especially this holiday season, whilst looking for ways to one up each other. Moving closer to the...

Last Thursday, the Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality’s Division of Coastal Resources Management partnered with the Micronesia Islands Nature Alliance’s Tasi Watch rangers, the Saipan Mayor’s Office, and the Department of Public Works to clean the sediment chambers near...