Joyce Tang, trustee of the NMI Settlement Fund, pushed the fund’s interest on lawmakers yesterday requesting government payments be at an equal weekly basis and not “by the end of each quarter” as is now, hinting at an “ask” for legislation to mandate such a payment schedule....

Newly released data prove what CUC customers already know: Water service on Saipan is getting worse, not better. U.S. EPA Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld sent me the data, collected by the CNMI Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality, showing that only 73 percent of...

The American Heart Association supports the proposed 4 cents per ounce tax on sugary drinks and congratulates the Northern Mariana Island Senate for passing the bill unanimously. Not only will half of the revenue from the tax go to ensure that all Commonwealth residents have...

On March 11, 2016, I was extremely disappointed to have learned that our local leaders, especially Gov. Ralph Torres, made the decision to publicly endorse Republican Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and his campaign to be our next Commander-in-Chief. Never in my life have...