{"id":17294,"date":"2011-09-06T02:25:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T02:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=17294"},"modified":"2011-09-06T02:25:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T02:25:05","slug":"saipan-chamber-polls-members-on-saipan-casino-article-12-abolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/saipan-chamber-polls-members-on-saipan-casino-article-12-abolition\/","title":{"rendered":"Saipan chamber polls members on Saipan casino, Article 12 abolition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Haidee V. Eugenio<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>Saipan Chamber of Commerce members are being polled on their views on legalizing casino gambling on Saipan and on the abolition of the CNMI Constitution&#8217;s land alienation restriction under Article 12.<\/p>\n<p>Members are asked to turn in their responses by Wednesday morning, in time for the noontime general membership meeting that day.<\/p>\n<p>The two questions, sent through an email link to members last week, are easily answerable by \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you in favor of legalizing casino gambling on the island of Saipan, CNMI?\u201d goes the first question.<\/p>\n<p>The second question is, \u201cAre you in favor of abolishing Article XII of the CNMI Constitution, allowing for the sale of privately owned property?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard Pierce, executive director of the Chamber, said they reminded members again yesterday to turn in their responses to the survey.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the survey will help the Chamber formulate its position statement on the controversial issue of casino gambling on Saipan, and the repeal of Article 12.<\/p>\n<p>The Chamber is the largest business organization in the CNMI with some 150 members.<\/p>\n<p>As of Saturday, only about 25 percent of members have turned in their responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Haidee V. Eugenio Reporter Saipan Chamber of Commerce members are being polled on their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}