Acting Tourism Commissioner Clement "Cain" Magras offers a quick overview of activities currently taking place in his department.

"I want to go back to a small space, the tinkle of glass where whiskey is poured, a shuffling of bar stools, thin trails of cigarette smoke from the bar, a murmur heard here and there, the almost empty, 9 o'clock, sultry, small, old jazz clubs of St. Thomas," writes Joseph Lisowski.

The V.I. Bureau of Audit and Control has issued another scathing audit detailing how the V.I. government spends — or, rather, misspends — taxpayer money. Will anyone, including Gov. Charles W. Turnbull, pay any attention to it? Will anyone be prosecuted? Will anything change?

The story they always tell about Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe took place in 1954 when, shortly after they were married, Marilyn went off to South Korea to entertain American troops there, recalls Frank J. Jordan.

Untreated drug addicts cost us plenty in many obvious and not so obvious ways, writes Catherine Mills. Yet despite the high financial, social and emotional costs, our only treatment center is in immediate danger of closing because of lack of funding.

A lot of Democratic Party officials are unhappy with Gov. Charles W. Turnbull's decision to hire retirees for so many highly visible positions. But they're only partially right.

Last week the Virgin Islands America’s Cup Challenge Foundation sponsored the Hampton University Sailing Team’s highly successful training trip to St. Croix, writes Michael Bornn. Here's why -- and here are lessons for all of us.

"Our hospitals need to be run by boards that are in partnership with the staff, and not beholden to what is, of necessity, a political branch of government," writes Judith Bourne, as the debate over hospital autonomy intensifies.

So what's new in the news media? Jean Etsinger, who is "the" journalism department at the University of the Virgin Islands, fills us in on people, policies and progress.

What does the Virgin Islands flag really have to do with the Virgin Islands, Frank J. Jordan wonders. And wouldn't the millennium be a good time to change it?
And what do our readers think, he asks.