The Shining Star tutoring program at HOVENSA is making a difference in kids’ lives, but there is a need for more volunteers.

When Catherine Lockhart Mills applies the law of cause and effect to several situations in the territory she comes up with some interesting conclusions.

Source reader Emmett Hansen says recent federal legislation provides billions of dollars for natural and historical preservation, but does the V.I. government even know?

Deborah S. Hamilton says that by working together, volunteers and institutions can be that thorn in the side of indifference.

Michael Paiewonsky says going back to municipal government will move the territory forward.

Now that women are playing much wider roles in society, gender-based assessment seems to show that women have something special to contribute.

Many people think the Virgin Islands doesn't need 15 senators. Source commentator Frank J. Jordan says help may be on the way.

There's an alternative to the territory's FSCs that could serve the USVI well, David North writes, but only is and when the territory gets its house in order.

Frank Schneiger, co-founder of the St. Thomas/St. John Youth Multiservice Center, says though the V.I. is in a deep crisis, there is a way out, but not through the status quo.

David North asks how Jeffrey Prosser can borrow hundreds of millions of dollars when the V.I. government gets far less -- and offers his answers.