“To the victor belong the spoils,” Andrew Jackson famously said after winning the hard-fought 1824 presidential election against incumbent John Quincy Adams. Nearly 200 years later, an American governor seated…
The following is a transcription of remarks Congresswoman Celina Roberto Babauta (D-Saipan) made in the House Chamber following the testimony of Gary Camacho, executive director of the Commonwealth Utilities Commission.…
Gov. Ralph Torres, who once said he has nothing to hide from the Commonwealth Legislature, has lawyered up, hiring the big guns from Washington, D.C. to represent him against a…
Gov. Ralph Torres has been consuming thousands to tens of thousands of dollars a month in water and power services. And the Commonwealth’s taxpayers have been footing the bill. Kandit…
Gov. Ralph Torres last month told a Saipan Tribune reporter his budget request did not include any pay raises for his cabinet members using federal funds. “I think that’s another…
Lt. Gov. Arnold Palacios Wednesday afternoon said it is up to the Commonwealth Legislature whether to depose the CNMI governor. “Should the governor be asked to resign, or otherwise be…
Some of Guam and Saipan’s richest people and companies were paid millions of dollars by the Commonwealth government using federal pandemic relief funds, while thousands of CNMI residents were waiting…
