To the Saipan Tribune: I thought you and your distribution staff might be interested in knowing that the Saipan Tribune now costs $1.50 over the counter on Tinian.\u00a0That is double the purchase price on Saipan.\u00a0When I asked why the paper had increased two times the price on the cover\u00a0the sales clerk guessed, \u201cMaybe freight cost.\u201d\u00a0I have read in many different sources that gas\/fuel costs were at their lowest price per\u00a0barrel\u00a0since 2009.\u00a0One would think that might be reflected to some small degree in lowering freight costs if that indeed is the reason for the increase. Instead, Tinian now pays twice the price. What\u203as up with that?<\/p>\n
As a lifelong educator and supporter of reading and learning through\u00a0newspapers I guess I need not say how I feel with and for those who purchase newspapers on a regular basis. I give my daily copies of your newspaper to the Tinian Jr. High School\u2019s Social Studies teacher for her students. I think the Saipan Tribune is a\u00a0far better paper than its competition on Saipan.\u00a0I\u2019ll keep buying it since the print version carries more news,\u00a0etc., than the one online. I do enjoy the archived articles that are available online when I want to reread something. The only supplemental reading\u00a0material\u00a0I requested for my English classes last year was a subscription to the Saipan Tribune. Keep up the good work informing CNMI citizens of global, national, and local news. The Saipan Tribune and all newspapers for that matter are\u00a0vital components of free speech.<\/p>\n
Joseph \u201cPepe Batbon\u201d Connolly<\/strong> To the Saipan Tribune: I thought you and your distribution staff might be interested in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[26,38,1343],"class_list":["post-189062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-cnmi","tag-saipan-tribune","tag-social-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189062","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSan Jose Village, Tinian<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"