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North
Pacific Islands Monthly readers will no longer be seeing the byline of David North who has joined the US Department of the Interior’s Insular office as press officer.
North started writing for the magazine in 1985, when PIM was working out of
Sydney, Australia.
This is his first job as a civil servant. In his previous work with the US govern ment, North was a political appointee, a consultant or contractor. He was Assistant to the US Secretary of Labour in the Johnson administration, close to 30 years ago.
In recent years, North was an immigra tion policy consultant and researcher; his work with PIM was a part-time venture.
Among the stories and trends he cov ered, in addition to Washington’s relations with the Pacific, were the politics of the American territories and of Capitol Hill, the financial jams frequently encountered by the island governments, the impact on the islands of fluctuating commodity prices and the threat of global warming.
PIM is sorry to see North go, but wishes him all the best in his new career.