Saipan Writer

I've started creating editorial cartoons. Well, I've always done this, but I've started submitting them to the Variety for publi...

Rain, gray skies, mist this morning. I actually used an umbrella. Sun, but with haze now. ____________________ "All of us who are conce...

The relevant constitutional provision of our CNMI Constitution reads: If a balanced budget is not approved (by the legislature) before the ...

October 3, 2010. Still no budget .

After several days of grey skies and rain, it's finally clearing. Hot and humid, as expected. _____________________________ Although the...

Hot days. A rainbow this morning in the western sky. A few scattered sulphur butterflies. And a travesty of cut-down trees along Beach Road ...

The weather, the world-more of the same. The ocean was a study in light and dark this morning, with patches of brigh turquoise and strecthes...

The tangentangen is full of brown, crackling, dried seed pods. Breadfruit trees are laden with huge ripe fruits. The nights are still cool a...

Tuesday evening, about 7 PM-beautiful red crescent moon. Later last night-glorious stars in deep black sky studded with clouds. More cadena ...

Rain, gray skies, and very cool temps all week; the ocean has been slate gray, too. Today, there's some blue and green in the water, the...

Governor Fitial has been in office on his new term for 2 days. And today's news is staggering--both entertaining and awful. The Variety ...

This excellent comment was buried in one of the threads, and I think it deserves a lot more light of day. I agree with you Jane regarding th...

We can send Howard Willens to Washington, D.C. the minute we hear that the Court has dismissed the initial 2 counts of the case fighting fe...

1. Fitial is being re-elected Governor of the CNMI. He's ahead by 500+ votes , and it seems unlikely (although not impossible) that the...

"...to the victor belong the spoils..." William L. Marcy The CNMI ...

You can read the entire post at Angelo's blog : I am voting for Heinz Hofschneider in the gubernatorial runoff election. I fully endorse...

Public Initiative to extend the Open Government Act (OGA) to apply to the Legislature. I don't have a link to the full text. If someone...

Yes, I know. I've skipped #3 (the Open Government Act initiative). I haven't gotten to it yet. But thought I should post what I can....

House Legislative Initiative 16-11 (H.L.I. 16-11) Amends Article III, section 9 (a) of the CNMI Constitution. Introduced by Diego T. Benave...

If we're going to muck around with amendments to a document as important as the CNMI Constitution, we surely should know what we're ...