Puerto Rico is a great place to hold a party, or to host a conference, or to put on a show. Recently, with “Hamilton” showing in San Juan, the Congressional… Read more »

Different territories, different solutions, different outcomes PR51ST recently reported on a proposal by the U.S. Virgin Islands non-voting Delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives to restore federal tax shelters… Read more »

Historically, Puerto Rico has seen higher levels of violence than the states. Those numbers had been improving. But Puerto Rico is now facing a spate of violence that has led… Read more »

Puerto Rico has twice voted for statehood, but the new chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources (the Congressional committee in charge of Puerto Rico) is not ready to… Read more »

Howard Hills, author of Citizens Without A State, wrote a letter published in the Pacific Daily News explaining that “America is a federation of states, not of states and territories.”… Read more »