By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo IN two days, there will be significant changes in our national life. Significant because what we intend to replace presents a formidable obstacle, a systemic disease gone malignant over time, and it will not go without the danger of further contamination of healthy cells or…
By Farah G. Decano THE role of a government legal counsel for chief executives is defined by the highest standards of integrity, not by political expediency. A government lawyer is bound by two supreme oaths: (1) the Lawyer’s Oath, and (2) the Oath as a Public Official. Neither oath…
By Eva Visperas WHEN farmlands begin to look like a mining site, something is terribly wrong. And in Barangay Samon, Sta. Maria, Pangasinan, the wrong is no longer creeping—it is gaping. About 20 hectares of fertile farmland now bear deep holes, stripped soil, and scars that should never exist on…
By Rex Catubig SOMETIME ago, Jessica Soho’s magazine show lovingly recounted the reunion after seven decades, of a simple house help and her American ward. The story harkened back to the magical times my cousins and I spent with our housemaid. More than the cleaning, cooking, and washing of…
By Gonzalo Duque ALL points indicate that the BBM administration is about to crumble. The November 16 to 17 Iglesia in Cristo (INC) gathering at the Rizal Park concluded with the speech of Senator Imee Marcos finally exposing the drug use of BBM. Even the INC did not anticipate…
By Leonardo Micua AFTER accusing in public her own brother and his whole family of being into illegal drug use, which is a serious accusation not backed up by evidence, I presume Senator Imee Marcos just lost a family. It is not in the Filipino culture to betray or…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo THE giants are devouring our mountains. Protect the Cordillera and Sierra Madre mountain ranges. No to logging. Revisit all mining permits, quarry permits and lands converted into subdivisions. Pass the National Land Use Act. Local government units (LGUs), pass a Municipal/Provincial Land Use Plan. Kutsara…
By Farah G. Decano “MY deepest apologies to my fellow countrymen for advancing the presidential candidacy of my brother, Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr., the namesake of my deposed late father, former President Ferdinand E. Marcos. I relentlessly pushed him to run despite my knowledge of his substance abuse issues….
By Eva C. Visperas I never liked firecrackers. Not when I was a child, not when I began working as a reporter, and certainly not today. I hate them—not simply because they pose hazards to lives and properties, but because they destroy the peace of my dogs, who tremble…
By Rex Catubig I always fell asleep on my way to Dagupan during my semester break from college. Despite being cramped elbow to elbow on the wooden bench seat of the Pantranco bus, the wind surge from the open sides, the drone of the engine, and the rocking motion…
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