House Speaker Rafael S. Demapan (R-Saipan) claims the legality and morality of him signing the Public School System certified question petition prevents him from co-signing it, even as PSS threatens a lawsuit. In a lengthy four-page statement, the House speaker states that he...

Two who filed candidacies as independent bets for the House of Representatives and one non-partisan who filed a candidacy for the Board of Education are out of the race, according to the Commonwealth Election Commission yesterday. Cecilia R. Taitano, who is formerly with the...

The CNMI State Board of Education will be moving forward in suing the CNMI government to finally settle the issue over what constitutes the mandated 25 percent funding that PSS should get from general revenues. BOE chair MaryLou S. Ada said they had given the CNMI House of...

In a three-hour session, the CNMI House of Representatives passed the cannabis legalization bill yesterday, naming it after the late David K. Peter. In a vote of 18-1-1, with one opposition and one abstention, Rep. Joseph Deleon Guerrero’s (R-Saipan) House Bill 20-178 passed on...