Gov. Palacios’ own words tell his story.  In a presentation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington in 2024, he described how, when he came into office, he tried to find out what happened to around $1.6 billion in federal funding (CARES, ARPA, etc.) that had been given to the CNMI, (population around 45,000) during the pandemic era.

By Therese Terlaje   Whatever happened to the Public Health building in Mangilao? Before it closed in 2019, it was where many families in...