The U.S. House of Representatives’ Armed Service Subcommittee on Readiness is drafting a Defense budget with provisions that restrict the U.S. Air Force from acquiring land in the CNMI for a divert airfield until some Congressional oversight. The draft Fiscal year 2017 National...

A question has come up about “freebies” for public officials by private firms. Is it legal and ethical or neither? What’s the larger damage to representation? It’s about integrity where you do the right things by doing them right. “A ‘man of principle’ is not a man...

This brings attention to the article, “CUC Human Resources Office to Help Create Organizational Chart” published on March 8, 2016, and the article, “Ratepayer Questions CUC Reorganization Plan” published on April 18, 2016, on the Marianas Variety. These...

For 14 years, I was a member of a family Religious Order that collaborated with Jews and Moslems, seculars and non-theists, truly ecumenical beyond ecclesiastical structures. Arising from Christendom that fevered like a pentecostal congregation (our dean was previously an Ohio...