Joseph B.D. Arriola
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LETTER: Star Trek teaches lesson about ocean mining (opens the original)
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One thing that ocean mining makes me think about is Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. In the movie, a mysterious alien probe comes to Earth and starts causing major environmental damage. The crew eventually figures out that the probe is trying to communicate with humpback whales. T The problem is that, in the future, humans have driven humpback whales to extinction. With no whales left to answer, Earth is in serious trouble. Captain Kirk and the crew end up traveling back in time to 1986 to bring t
LETTER: Tiyan could be the right place for Guam's new hospital (opens the original)
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The decision about where to build Guamâs new hospital is one of the most important investments our island will make. This is not simply about choosing a location. It is about ensuring that future generations have access to quality healthcare in a facility that is accessible, resilient, and capable of meeting Guamâs evolving needs. By those standards, Tiyan stands out as the right choice. One of Tiyanâs greatest strengths is its central location. A hospital should be easy to reach whether s
LETTER: Agupa system vs. Guam Financial Management Information System (opens the original)
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The question has surfaced repeatedly in recent discussions: Did this administration purchase an Agupa 2.0 financial system? The answer is straightforward â no, it did not. The Agupa system belongs to a different era entirely, a failed procurement from more than two decades ago. But the more important truth is this: while the system is different, the pattern of failure is the same, and that is what should concern the people of Guam. Agupa was purchased around 1999â2001 under a previous admini
LETTER: Reducing Guam’s Business Privilege Tax (opens the original)
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The difficulty of reducing Guamâs Business Privilege Tax from 4.5% back to 4% is not the result of economic inevitability. It is the product of deliberate administrative choices that structurally tied government operations to the higher rate. The same pattern applies to the earlier increase from 4% to 5%. That increase was explicitly sold as temporary, a short-term measure to stabilize government finances. Yet the current administration made decisions that ensured the temporary increase became
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