Notes on Saipan
Jim Bob KingmanReflections on the most interesting and least recognized part of America, and what it can tell us about the world.
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Abandonment on Saipan
The slow and inconsistent federal response to Sinlaku - now nearly two months since the storm and largely without electricity - is in line with the frustration that I have felt regarding how the mainland has managed its relationship with th...
Samaritans and Sinlaku
May 20, 2026
The “Office of Insular Affairs” sounds farcical, like a Ministry of Silly Walks.
As is fitting with a place so shaped by unintended history, the little known and idiosyncratic Office of Insular Affairs is the primary Federal...
Sorrow and Sinlaku
April 28, 2026 (Landfall + 14)
It seems cruel and out of touch to mourn the landscape while there are hungry people.
But on Saipan, the divisions between the waters and land from the people who inhabit them are not firm. The entire island...
Survival and Sinlaku
April 21, 2026 (Landfall + 7)
I didn’t know a typhoon could stop.
Until last week, I thought cyclonic storms slowed as they broke up after hitting land. During Hurricane Harvey, it wasn’t the landfall that did the worst damage—it was the...
Mourning in the Marianas
Everything on Saipan is shaped by a unique mixture of the indigenous Chamorro, Micronesian, Spanish, German, Japanese, Filipino, and American influences. One of the most visible practices reflecting this stew is the way that the dead are re...
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My path has taken me from small town Texas to Saipan with a lot of courtrooms and classrooms in between.
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