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Esther J. Cepeda: The fear of federal college loans

CHICAGO — If you're not intimately familiar with the terrifying phrase "February is FAFSA time," you don't have college-age kids. Or you're wealthy enough to be unencumbered by the gut-wrenching process of filling out the dreaded Free Application for Federal Student Aid, the gateway to federal and state student grants, work-study and loans for college.

Flashback Feb. 10, 1999-2003

Members of the CNMI Legislature yesterday slammed as yet another threat to its self-governance a proposed rider in an appropriation bill in the U.S. Congress that will amend the tariff-free treatment of local goods as well as make any raise in the federal minimum wage level applicable in the commonwealth.

Maximize financial aid by filling out FAFSA

As of Jan. 1, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, became available for the 2012-13 school year. The FAFSA qualifies students for federal grants, loans and work-study jobs, and serves ...

LETTERS

Now that a federal judge has correctly dismissed the PETA suit seeking constitutional status for orcas (Local, Feb. 9), it is also time for a federal suit to strip corporations of their falsely constitutional status. If animals are not humans under the 13th Amendment, then neither are corporate entities people under the 14th.

Comment on GOP wants private sector to rescue space program

The way I see it, space offers a problem in transportation infrastructure development, similar in scope to what we went through with the transcontinental railroad in the 19th Century. The railroad projects would never have happened as quickly, or as completely, as they did, without the massive government subsidies in the form of federal land-grants. The federal government granted free land ...