In my last edition of this Op-Ed, I left you to consider whether ASG (and LBJ, but I believe that we can even include the DOH here too, etc.) has been claiming anywhere near all of the money that i
![Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale addressing the Senate Public Safety/Homeland Security Committee yesterday morning on a Senate bill, seeking to mandate a minimum 5-year jail term for drug convictions. [photo: FS]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/%28WS%29%20Talauega%20n%20DPS%200207.jpg?itok=tq1ku-a6 "Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale addressing the Senate Public Safety/Homeland Security Committee yesterday morning on a Senate bill, seeking to mandate a minimum 5-year jail term for drug convictions. [photo: FS]")
Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo Ale and Deputy Police Commissioner, Vaimaga Maiava, have voiced their support of a Senate bill, which mandates a minimum five-year imprisonment for those convicte
![Dwayne Johnson, the former WWE superstar known as “The Rock" [photo Quartz Media]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/the-rock-for-president%20copy.jpg?itok=YXXplnPr "Dwayne Johnson, the former WWE superstar known as “The Rock\" [photo Quartz Media]")
Dwayne Johnson, the former WWE superstar known as “The Rock,” should run for president of the United States of America.
No, really.
![[photo from company website]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/YUH%20FA%20NO%20201%20copy.jpg?itok=tQ9_URx8 "[photo from company website]")
A fishing vessel company that operated in and around American Samoa was convicted and sentenced today for maintaining false and incomplete records relating to the discharge of oil and garbage, ann
![Dr. Thomas Petznick collects a specimen sample from a sow at one of the local pig farms during the ASCC-ACNR Swine Disease Survey in early August. [photo: D. Helsham]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ASCC-ACNR%20Swine%20Disease%202.jpg?itok=nST02P6u "Dr. Thomas Petznick collects a specimen sample from a sow at one of the local pig farms during the ASCC-ACNR Swine Disease Survey in early August. [photo: D. Helsham]")
The Agriculture, Community and Natural Resources Division (ACNR) of the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) conducted a swine disease survey in the territory in early August.
![Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale [SN file photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/AG_0824_0.jpg?itok=YaKn-qxa "Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale [SN file photo]")
The inclusion of lawmakers in a Senate bill requiring all ASG employees, including elected officials, to undergo drug testing prompted questions from Sen.
During a session this past Tuesday, Senators got a sneak peek at the proposed two-story Fono building.
The Lolo Administration’s proposed hike in port fees and other charges will be passed on to the consumer, and such increases will further discourage outside investment, according to GHC Reid &
![American Samoa's Fuao III prior to the 2017 Flag Day races. [SN file photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Fuao%20III_0.jpg?itok=bFlMOu-f "American Samoa's Fuao III prior to the 2017 Flag Day races. [SN file photo]")
