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January 2009

A great addition

By | Punch Forum

Prince Henry Dumaran 6 Jan 2009 Mr. Pontaoe, I always look forward to your posting as I really do admire your no non-sense approach to issues that you would comment on…most of all your seemingly conservative mindset is one that I would emulate. However, with all due respect sensing that…

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A great addition

By January 6, 2009Punch Forum

Punchline

By | Opinion, Punchline

The longest Christmas holiday By Ermin Garcia Jr. The unprecedented 11-day straight No-Work Christmas holiday was definitely both good news and bad news to a lot of people! It was good news for salaried regular employees! They got their extra vacation-paid leaves without lifting their fingers. It was good news…

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Punchline

By January 6, 2009Opinion, Punchline

Think about it

By | Archives, Opinion

Pangasinenses still call JDV “Speaker” By Jun Velasco SOME people – the anti GMAs – will not like this column piece. On Rizal Day, Dec. 30, 2008, the President thru its press office under Sec. Jess Dureza invited some 80 Region l newsmen to a “media holiday” in Gov. Victor…

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Think about it

By January 6, 2009Archives, Opinion

Playing with Fire

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Bok’s House By Gonzalo Duque   CHRISTMAS and the New Year came and went. As Fr. Jerry Orbos, whom we had the opportunity to briefly dialogue with, would say, “Let’s thank God we are still alive.” Yup, please ponder that, mga kapuso, we tend to take God for granted. Hindi…

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Playing with Fire

By January 6, 2009Archives, Opinion

Harvest Time

By | Archives, Opinion

Bright days ahead for eggplant growers By Dr. Sosimo Ma. Pablico IN MANY RAINFED FARMS in Ilocos Region, the wet season rice is followed after a short fallow period by hybrid corn and vegetables, as the farmers can no longer produce another rice crop during the dry season. Among the…

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Harvest Time

By January 6, 2009Archives, Opinion

Viewpoints

By | Archives, Opinion

Politics and politicians By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. AS COMMONLY known, politics is the art of governance or the science concerned with the form, organization and administration of government. The fact alone that it is an “art” or a “science” clearly says if not immediately implies that politics is…

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Viewpoints

By January 6, 2009Archives, Opinion