You can be 100 percent assured that no one at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference asked the question: When we see the problems that our country faces, what can we do to help our government and the President?

As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) signed into law by President Barack Obama on Feb. 17, 2009, Congress introduced many tax incentives that can help U.S. Virgin Islands residents save on their 2009 income taxes.

Jack Wilson offers a disquisition on why women can never be equal to men -- they will always be superior.

I was talking to a Rasta Farmer at the Ag Fair in Bordeaux, shortly after the quake, and the topic of Haiti came up. He said, “A lot of good is going to come out of Haiti.” And I knew what he meant.

The silly and apparently politically-motivated attack on the governor for the security fences at his private resident reminds me, a writer, of the importance of punctuation—and how careful the Senate, for instance, should be with its verbiage.

When professor Rex Nettleford brought his National Dance Theatre Company to perform at the Reichhold Center for the Arts, it was in its 34th year of operation. But UVI believed that no self-respecting center for the arts in the Caribbean should have to admit it had never hosted a performance by the NDTC of Jamaica.

The recent Source Manager’s Journal column on MafolieGate has been angrily criticized in some quarters. Some of the responses were mean-spirited, including several suggestions that the columnist perform acts that have been proven to be anatomically impossible. But one critique came from the world-renowned political scientist and philosopher, Clarence J. Tews.

Mafolie, such a pretty name and such a pretty hill. And now we have Mafoliegate, the scandal of the governor’s security fence. For those under the age of 50 and others whose memories may have dulled, here is a brief history lesson.

On occasions when I am alone and in a particular frame of mind, a steady stream of faces moves across my memory. Some of them did not tell me their names, some gave false names. The troubles they were tortured into telling were true enough.

Comparing President Obama’s State of the Union address to Gov. deJongh’s State of the Territory address may seem like an extreme case of apples and oranges. But apples-to-oranges comparisons can be useful, so here goes.