The CNMI minimum wage is now at $7.25 per hour starting yesterday, Sept. 30, 2018. This is a $.20-cent increase over the CNMI’s last minimum wage of $7.05 an hour. That makes the CNMI minimum wage the same as that of 14 other states in the U.S. mainland that includes Texas,...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Delegate Madeleine Z. Bordallo announced yesterday that the House Committee on Natural Resources has favorably reported H.R. 5875, a bill she introduced to provide parity for the five U.S. territories and the District of Columbia with the 50 states unde...

Most people know that Chinese food is loaded with MSG, which the Chinese call “wei jing.” It is an excitoxin and can cause brain fog, headaches, and other neurological symptoms. From Google: “Topping the charts of dangerous additives is MSG, (monosodium glutamate); a known...

In one of last week’s opinion pieces, you write: “Juneteenth was ‘June Nineteenth’ when Union Soldiers emancipated slaves in Texas. The slaves slurred their words and June 19 became ‘Juneteenth’!” Your statement that the slaves slurred their speech is racist and offensive,...