{"id":224136,"date":"2016-03-29T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=224136"},"modified":"2016-03-29T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T20:00:29","slug":"oag-says-superior-court-lacks-jurisdiction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/oag-says-superior-court-lacks-jurisdiction-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Torres swears in new member to zoning board; re-nominates others"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_224140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224140\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Taitano-pix-300x225.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-224140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former lawmaker Mariano Taitano was sworn in by Gov. Ralph DLG Torres as the newest member to the CNMI Zoning Board during a ceremony yesterday. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gov. Ralph DLG Torres swore in a new member to the Commonwealth Zoning Board.<\/p>\n<p>Former lawmaker Mariano Taitano was sworn in during a ceremony yesterday in the Office of the Governor\u2019s conference room.<\/p>\n<p>Torres said he looks forward to working with Taitano and the rest of the board members in addressing important zoning issues.<\/p>\n<p>Torres also has re-nominated a couple members of the Zoning board to their posts.<\/p>\n<p>In March 22 letters to the Saipan and Northern Islands Legislative Delegation, Torres announced his re-appointment of board members Joe Erra Ayuyu Jr. and Diego Blanco.<\/p>\n<p>In his letters, Torres said he is confident that Ayuyu and Blanco are qualified for the post and would continue to devote their time and efforts on this important board.<\/p>\n<p>The re-appointments required SNILD confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed, Ayuyu and Blanco will serve another two-year term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ralph DLG Torres swore in a new member to the Commonwealth Zoning Board. Former&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":224140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[46,6648,344,2738],"class_list":["post-224136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-ceremony","tag-commonwealth-zoning-board","tag-mariano-taitano","tag-snild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224136","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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}