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Tax exemptions, livestream of GovGuam meetings on session agenda By Joe Taitano II View Comments Measures to permanently expand business privilege tax exemptions for certain small businesses, increase public access to government of Guam meetings and decisions, increase the threshold of the total cost of purchasing a home on Guam and other measures will be up for debate during Monday's legislative session. Members of the 36th Guam Legislature will discuss the following bills:  Bill 74 would permanently increase the gross threshold for limited business privilege tax exemptions from the fir...

Robert Underwood: Deeper issue was in the denial of the ability of the territories to participate in the democratic process.

Insular Cases decision must be rejected by Congress By Rindraty Celes Limtiaco The issue of the Insular Cases isn’t always easy to understand. It can be complicated. Unfortunately, even on our island, where the issue sits at the heart of our existence, the issue can cause eyes to gloss over and holds way less interest than the disbursal of tax refunds. But the issue is important. It deserves attention. It sits at the heart of the federal government’s justification for discrimination against Guam and other territories. Why? Because our very existence as Guam is dependent on a territorial c...

Guam and territories appear before Congress to oppose Insular Cases Joe Taitano II View Comments Corrections and clarifications: a previous version of this story stated that Prof. Rose Cuizon-Villazor  was an instructor at UC Davis.  Representatives from Guam appeared before Congress early Thursday morning to testify on the Insular Cases, a series of U.S. Supreme Court rulings from the early 1900s that have been used to deny access to federal programs, voting rights, and equal rights to people living in U.S. territories. U.S. House of Representatives Resolution 279, the subject of the heari...

President Joe Biden announces third slate of judicial nominees CNN 5/13/2021 By Kate Sullivan, CNN © Pool/Getty Images North America/Getty Images President Joe Biden listens during a virtual meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on March 17, 2021. President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his intent to nominate three new US Court of Appeals nominees and three new District Court nominees, marking his third slate of judicial nominations. Altogether, the President has now put forward 20 names for federal judge vacancies. The White House described many of the nomin...