Disappointing performance of councilors By Bebot Villar HOW time flies. Election day is practically just around the corner. For many, it becomes exciting or stressful everyday especially for neophytes in politics. Still, there are those who are again lucky na hindi na kailangan ang mag-effort just to get the sweet…
An Eye for an eye By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo ON a Thursday morning, Francis Fernandez tagged me to a post of Gabriel Cardinoza quoting Ellen DeGeneres, “If we’re destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there’s got to be…
“How The West Was Won” By Jesus A. Garcia Jr IT WAS sunny Sunday last November 29 and the Bugallon town fiesta celebration proceeded smoothly, from the street dancing event to the bicycle road race which were the main highlights of the festivity. The 170.8 kilometers cycling road saga which…
A LOST CAUSE — I, too, grieve for the massacre of trees along the Manila North Road (MNR) as one of those trees that were felled was a mango tree planted by my late father some 45 years ago or so ago in front of our house in Villasis. When…
Unheralded police chiefs By Ermin Garcia Jr. LET me share an email I received in connection with our editorial last November 15 issue titled: “The complacent 44 police chiefs” A “Joey Mejia” wrote me: “My question is: if 4 newspapers are awarded as being top ‘newspapers’ …does that mean that…
Art, a vehicle to divinity By Jun Velasco ”Dream big and hang on no matter what,” — Paco Santos WHEN you are in Dagupan, don’t tarry a day to visit (till Nov. 30) an exhibit “Lakbay” at the Llongoren Gallery at the Teotinay Crisologo Bldg., in Barangay Tapuac. A quiet…
We told you so! By Gonzalo Duque YOU all saw the Pulse Asia survey. Duterte by a mile, 34% in Metro Manila! He eclipsed Grace Poe, Jojo Binay, Mar Roxas and Miriam Santiago in such a way that they could not catch up. Know what? Ang tao ay galit sa…
Benny’s solid stand on Duterte sustained By Al S. Mendoza BENNY Gopez was right all along. “Mayor Duterte will run for President,” Benny had kept telling anyone who cared to listen. “Mark my word.” You do not know Benny. I know him from head to foot. Relentless and the most…
PAGCOR’s help By Bebot Villar THE Dangerous Drugs Board’s (DDB) 43rd Anniversary celebration was graced by our “kababayan,” the amiable yet very humble PAGCOR Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Cristino “Bong” L. Naguiat as keynote speaker last Tuesday, November 24, 2015. For the record, DDB has been fortunate to have…
Pacman of the trees By Virginia J. Pasalo PACMAN is a game where the player increases its strength through power-ups to turn around to catch the ghosts. The player gets bonus points and extends his life after gobbling up enough ghosts. In the Philippines, it originally refers to a person…
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