Here is the schedule of public hearings of the Economic Development Commission through the end of 2001.

Here is the proclamation issued by former President Bill Clinton on Jan. 17, 2001 proclaiming 20 square miles of submerged lands around St. John as a national monument.

St. Thomas tax and investment attorney Marjorie Rawls Roberts summarizes what the territory has to offer qualifying new business investors in a paper she presented at a recent conference on international investment in Colorado.

Attorney Ned Jacobs, director of The Phonics Institute, wants to move forward with voluntary phonics-based reading Programs in Virgin Islands public schools.
Click to read his proposal.

Complete text of the letter from the League of Women Voters to Gov. Charles W. Turnbull concerning provisions in the Omnibus Bill created by the 23rd Legislature.

A complete listing of the Officers and Committee members of the 24th Legislature and Senator's telephone numbers.

The complete text of the document released on Jan. 16, 2001, by Senate President Almando "Rocky" Liburd detailing the goals of the new Legislature.

In the sixth article in her series on the five-year economic plan, Bernetia Akin looks at the territory's reliance on federal grants and how the plan would use those monies—and get even more of them.

In the fifth of a series on the Five Year Operating and Strategic Financial Plan, Bernetia Akin looks at the Plan's recommendations on changing the V.I. tax system.

Never mind the 500 pages worth of statistics and 200-plus recommendations. The core of the so-called Five Year Plan couldn't be more simple: If you want to stop the government's financial free-fall into bankruptcy, you can't just reduce spending, you've also got to improve the private sector.