For decades now, conservative politicians have invoked “the American people,” referring to a group far more limited than one would think.

In many ways, the Virgin Islands has been spared the Reagan Republican “vision,” BUT ...

Commissioner of Health Mercedes K.C. Dullum, M.D., writes that we all have to take responsibility for our own health and be proactive in order to prevent disease and control risk factors. The Department of Health has many ways to help in the fight against disease.

The V.I. Board of Elections has left more than a quarter of a million dollars in federal funds sitting in Washington.

One of the reasons for the “fiscal crisis” is the very presence of the two six-member boards of elections in the Virgin Islands.

We rarely think of where we live as the place that we work or go to school, even though we spend many hours in these places.

As a healthcare provider, former Acting Commissioner of Health and Medical Director of the then St. Croix Hospital, the fiscal plight of this facility and the recent dismissals of LPNs and CNAs are deeply troubling to me as it has been to a broad spectrum of the St. Croix community.

Despite its vehement denials, the Republican Party is now the party of reaction, of white nationalism, of corporate power, of theocracy and of hostility to the “others.”

The New York Times and the Washington Post reported that Mitt Romney won the Virgin Islands Republican caucus on Saturday, yet Ron Paul got more votes.

The U.S. Virgin Islands and other islands in the Caribbean are vulnerable to the effects of climate change.