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LETTER: Raise GSWA's budget instead of raising trash service rates for customers
Pacific Daily News
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The Guam Solid Waste Authority, like many other agencies, has faced underfunding year after year. Now, residents are being asked to bear the financial burden through proposed rate increases by GSWA to cover operational costs. As taxpayers, we...
Map: Tracking Tropical Storm Mun
The New York Times
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July 3, 2025
Mun was a tropical storm in the North Pacific Ocean late Thursday Japan time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said in its latest advisory. Forecast wind speeds and direction Typhoon season is year-round; however, most typhoons form from early...
Nauru Airlines and Air Marshall Islands announce new cooperation agreement
AeroTime News
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July 3, 2025
South Pacific carriers Air Marshall Islands and Nauru Airlines have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) strengthening ties between the carriers, “to enhance regional aviation resilience, improve connectivity and service...
GSH/OCD: Heavy rainfall of 5 to 10 inches likely through the weekend, 5.4 quake early Tuesday morning
Pacific Daily News
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Heavy rainfall of 5 to 10 inches from Thursday night through Sunday is likely on Guam due to a tropical disturbance, the Guam Homeland Security and Office of Civil Defense said, citing information from the National Weather Service. GHS/OCD also...
DODEA Focuses on Teacher Development for New School Year
DVIDS - Georgia
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July 3, 2025
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES 08.21.2012 Courtesy Story Students heading back to Defense Department schools over the next few weeks are likely to see many improvements, inlcuding modernized classrooms, the latest technology, new course offerings,...
Why Trump’s bombing of Iran will only bolster North Korea’s nuclear resolve
The Independent
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June 24, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
This Portland Collective Keeps the City Clean — And Helps Unhoused People Find Stability
The Good Men Project - California
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June 29, 2025
By Joseph Winters, Grist “This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” On a Thursday morning in Portland’s Old Town neighborhood, two dozen people mill around a warehouse, waiting for the results of a...
DL Perez passes renewal inspection
The Guam Daily Post
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Daniel L. Perez Elementary School is the latest Guam Department of Education facility to pass renewal sanitary inspection by the Department of Public Health and Social Services, ensuring the school is ready to open for the upcoming school year. A...
Coalition stands with American Samoa in opposing unilateral proposals for deep seabed mining
Samoa News
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July 2, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Right to Democracy (RtD) and the America the Beautiful for All Coalition have united in support of American Samoa's right to protect its ocean and seabeds from destructive deep seabed mining. The organizations have...
HR Hub: Building a thriving workplace, embracing remote work
Pacific Daily News
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For local companies here on Guam, fostering a positive workplace environment isn’t just a feel-good initiative—it’s the culture of the island. A strong, supportive workplace can significantly boost productivity, employee engagement, and retention,...
Start small, start now: Did the hammer drill do the trick?
Pacific Daily News
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Spirits were high as we boarded the boat for Islan Dåno’. We were taking with us a new device to help us spot snakes. We had not seen a snake on Dåno’ since April 13, 2024 but we were sure that some were still lurking in the canopy of the tall...
Solano County U.S. Reps sound alarm over Iran strike
The Reporter - California
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June 24, 2025
When “Midnight Hammer” got underway on Saturday, a group of B-2 bombers took off from a base in Missouri and were spotted flying toward the Pacific island of Guam. They were all part of a decoy ruse, designed to draw attention away from the real...
NMI’s Aleksenko gets 4th gold
Marianas Variety
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(Northern Marianas Sports Association) — NMI’s Isaiah Aleksenko extended his winning streak by clinching a fourth straight gold medal on Day 3 of the swimming competitions at the 2025 Pacific Mini Games in Palau. Aleksenko’s fourth gold came in...
Rarely seen endemic Mariana butterflyfish captured on video
Marianas Variety
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Mariana butterflyfish APRA, Guam — Last month, during Ocean Exploration Trust’s exploration of Ahyi Seamount (a shallow submarine volcano in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands), the Corps of Exploration aboard exploration vessel...
A more complicated kind of kill chain is making China's missiles a deadlier problem for US forces, a top general says
Business Insider
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July 2, 2025
China's missiles are becoming a deadlier problem for the US military due to complex evolutions in the country's kill chains, according to a top American general. The Pentagon has been focused on China's growing arsenal of missiles for years,...
San Agustin proposes $73M for education infrastructure without raising taxes
Pacific Daily News
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Sen. Joe S. San Agustin on Monday introduced a bill seeking to generate $73 million in funding for urgently needed capital improvements at Guam Department of Education schools without raising taxes, increasing public debt, or requiring new...
Taiwan, South Korea and Japan also need to spend 5 percent on defence
The Strategist
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July 3, 2025
There’s no shortage of measures that the United States’ major East Asian friends could spend an increased defence budget on. NATO allies of the US have agreed to allocate 5 percent of GDP to defence and related spending. With the growing risk of...
Research Matters: Matchmaking coral and rebuilding reefs
Pacific Daily News
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(This is the first in a new biweekly column, “Research Matters,” from the University of Guam Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.) The University of Guam Marine Laboratory is known across the Pacific and beyond for its coral reef research...
The Home Depot firma un acuerdo para que SRS Distribution adquiera GMS
WV News - West Virginia
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Amplía las ofertas y las capacidades de distribución para los clientes Pro MCKINNEY, Texas y ATLANTA, 2 de julio de 2025 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- The Home Depot®, el minorista de mejoras para el hogar más grande del mundo, ha firmado un...
Oman unveils Advanced Air Mobility Sandbox
Oman Observer
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July 1, 2025
MUSCAT, JULY 1 Oman’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) recently unveiled its Sandbox AAM Oman 2025 Programme at the prestigious Paris-Le Bourget International Air and Space Show (SIAE), a key initiative that charts the Sultanate’s ambitions to...