The House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources will be conducting a public hearing today, June 12, starting at 6pm at the Pedro P. Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center in Susupe. This public hearing will particularly affect those of Northern Marianas descent. Rep. Alice S....

How do you dispose of legislators who raised their salaries by 80 percent while completely ignoring the livelihood of 14,000-plus employees earning poverty income level and below? They also ignored 3,000 retirees with fixed income. Did you forget that salaries have remained the...

A proposed amendment to the CNMI Constitution is up for discussion on Tinian today. Rep. Alice Igitol’s (R-Saipan) House Legislative Initiative 20-01 seeks to use $1 million from accrued interest obtained through the Marianas Public Land Trust to pay for health insurance of...

In 2008, the only labor problem facing the CNMI was too many workers and not enough jobs. Any big economic comeback was a pie-in-the-sky dream for us back then. But at least we knew that, if needed, we could make our own immigration decisions for ourselves: in a matter of weeks,...