Outgoing Gov. Ralph Torres is leaving behind a broken and broke government. Despite his claims of financial management and there being “no deficit,” the cracks in the wall behind the…

Tinian’s senators didn’t just benefit from federal dollars through the BOOST grant program. They also have been  taking the maximum legislative allowance almost every single month since their term began…

BOOST Connects: Senate president’s family, top campaign official get BOOSTed Senate president Jude Hofschneider (R-Tinian) told senators in the closing session of the 22nd Commonwealth Senate that he is disappointed…

The federal government finally is pursuing action following its raids of Gov. Ralph Torres’s office and home, the office of his brothers’s law firm, and the Imperial Pacific International (CNMI)…

Two companies with direct ties to the administration either canceled their requests for small business grant, or returned a portion of payments made to them under the Building Optimism and…

By Vickilyn Manglona Teregeyo On October 5, 2022, Tinian company K-Town LLC was among the first awardees of the Building Optimism and Opportunities for Stability Together (BOOST) program grant. The…

  By Vickilyn Manglona Teregeyo Two companies allege information the Bank of Saipan submitted to the Commonwealth Legislature listing small business grant program awardees is wrong. Both R&I Corporation and…

(Author’s note: This is the first in a series of stories we will publish as an investigative report on the companies that have received BOOST funding) • By Vickilyn Manglona…

There is always room for improvement: a new catch phrase in the Mariana Islands for testifying before the legislature in a corruption investigation. Watch Rep. Tina Sablan’s interrogation of the…

Wil Castro and John Arroyo both shed light into what has clearly been a corrupt misuse of federal funds by the Torres administration to enrich themselves. The problem is that…