SAIPAN

ENVIRONMENT
Super Typhoon Yutu Was Strongest Storm To Hit Any Part Of The U.S. This Year
By Caleb Jones and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, AP
Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan, the territory’s delegate to Congress, said residents will need significant help to recover.
ENVIRONMENT
Northern Mariana Islands May Face Months Without Power After Super Typhoon Yutu
By Caleb Jones and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, AP
"It's like a small war just passed through."
ENVIRONMENT
Super Typhoon Yutu Slams Into Northern Mariana Islands With ‘Horrifying’ Winds
By Caleb Jones and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, AP
“We knew it was going to be big,” said one resident of Saipan, “but wow.”
TRAVEL
Take A Yellow Submarine; No Need To Scuba To See The Creatures of the Sea - Section IV: Animal Planet on the Looney Front, Part 16
By Mike Arkus, Contributor
Journalist
Swimming With Fidel: The Toils Of An Accidental Journalist, available on Kindle, with free excerpts here, and in print version
IMPACT
Portraits Of Typhoon-Ravaged Saipan Show Resiliency Amidst Ruin
By Carla Herreria
"I don't think that people elsewhere understand the magnitude of the suffering here."
GOOD NEWS
Typhoon Rips Roof Off Island's Only Animal Shelter, Doesn't Stop Volunteers
By Arin Greenwood
"Before the typhoon, things were going well"
THE WORLDPOST
'State Of Disaster' Declared After Typhoon Soudelor Slams Saipan
By Carla Herreria
"Waking up the next day and seeing all the damage was heartbreaking."
TRAVEL
Saipan Is The Most Beautiful Place In America You've Never Heard Of
By Arin Greenwood
Here, see for yourself: Thanks to photographers Mark D. Robertson, Leslie Ware and Mike Ronesia for your photos. Indeed again
WOMEN
5 Things I Learned Leaving My Nicely-Paid Lawyer Job to Move to a Small, Tropical Island Near Guam
By Arin Greenwood, Contributor
Animal Welfare Editor, The Huffington Post
I left a well-paying lawyer job in New York to move to a small tropical island near Guam. I'd like to say it was some sort of insight about the Meaning Of Life. In reality, it was a terrific combination of terrible things in the romance, personal well-being and employment departments.
TRAVEL
From Bloody Nose Ridge to the Valley of Death - Part 1: In the Trenches on the Looney Front
By Mike Arkus, Contributor
Journalist
Wherever you go in the Pacific, you can follow the swirl of humankind's passion for war, from rusting tanks and guns to monuments and markers in tranquil valleys, to the peaceful green lawns of manicured cemeteries
POLITICS
Ralph Reed in the Marianas Trenches
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Contributors
Ralph Reed's was a monstrous lie by one of the monumental hypocrites of our time. Yet he marches on, Christian soldier to the end, turning the temple of faith into one big ATM.
BUSINESS
The Rise And Fall Of Saipan
By Current TV’s “Vanguard”, Contributor
Vanguard: Current TV's no-limits documentary series
Once the ultimate globalization success story, the island of Saipan now faces one of the fastest economic collapses in history.