After weeks of back-and-forth, the House Ways and Means Committee finally came up with a $145.2-million budget bill for fiscal year 2018 that must be enacted before Sept. 30, 2017, to avert a CNMI government shutdown. The bill is set to be introduced to the House of...

Well, the entire members of the CUC board have resigned as requested by Governor Torres. I’m not sure I heard any grumbling from any of them. They just resigned and left. But why did Gov. Torres ask them resign? I say that, at first instance, the governor felt that there was a...

Rep. Ivan A. Blanco (R-Saipan) hopes to make clear the Office of the Attorney Generals’ duties and responsibilities when it comes to reviewing contracts of the CNMI government. The first-term lawmaker has introduced House Bill 20-43 to define the AG’s obligations in representing...

The four environmental and cultural preservation groups that are challenging the U.S. Navy’s decision to relocate 5,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam are insisting that their claims are justiciable and that they have standing to sue. The Tinian Women’s Association, Guardians of...