Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa began their Covid-vaccine programs in mid-December. However, the Marshall Islands became the first independent nation in the Pacific to begin distributing COVID-19 vaccinations with just a few…
Some very encouraging news has been coming out of the RMI over these past couple of months. The border cases identified at the end of October, one active infection of COVID-19, was cleared to re-enter…
Kajin M̧ajeļ: https://chikinmelele.com/caleb-klipowicz-2/ Iakwe everyone! My name is Caleb Klipowicz and I am a student at the University of Iowa where I study anthropology and public health. Anthropologists like me are interested in learning about…
TRUE Northwest Arkansas, a program through the Arkansas Community Foundation, is supporting the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts of 14 local organizations in Benton and Washington counties: BikeNWA, Circle of Life, Crystal Bridges Museum…
Joshua Manene was born in La Grande, Oregon in 1992 to his parents, Tolio and Ponciana Clanry. He grew up in Oregon until 2006, when his parents moved back to the Marshall Islands to become…
Io̧kwe! Hello! I’m Rev. Jim Parrish, minister for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fayetteville, a city in northwest Arkansas (NWA). I’ve been the pastor there for six years, and my congregation and I are involved…
A total of 313 people – 268 American workers plus 17 Americans and 28 Marshallese expected to be released from quarantine this week – have been repatriated to the RMI through Kwajalein as of November…
As soon as there was community spread of the novel coronavirus outside of Asia, the RMI closed its borders. There has been discussion and debate all year surrounding the possible repatriation of essential workers to…
With a projected 306 electoral votes and more than 75 million votes, Joe Biden wins the election to take office as the next president and Kamala Harris as vice president of the United States. The…
The big surprise last election was the number of Midwestern states that flipped and voted for Trump after consistently voting for the Democratic candidate for six elections. Most of the Midwest voted for President Barack…