The Torre administration, low on money and looking for options, has chosen to look at the CNMI Medical Referral annual expenditures of $15 million to find some savings. They also cite the overtime costs for law enforcement, (Department of Public Safety, Department of Fire and...

The first things you do to begin the organized development of a new place is to make sure you can get there, carry and unload enough materials once there to construct needed initial infrastructure and get yourself and your work crews off and headed safely back home until the next...

Diversity is a word much bandied about these days in various contexts, mostly social. For our purposes today we want to look at how economic diversity impacts the fragile economy of the CNMI. The answer is…not enough. A diverse economy, with income money coming in from a variety...

Speaking of Zaldy Dandan, here is a fellow that contributes some of the most rational, effective and helpful bits to the local political and cultural conversation via his weekly op-ed columns. A recent piece he printed about the need for open-mindedness struck me as a valuable...