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Punchline
 The President’s men from Pangasinan
By Ermin Garcia Jr.
AFTER the DPWH, it’s the projects of the Department of Agriculture that are highly vulnerable to corruption. Like the substandard mix for asphalt and cement for road projects, anomalies almost always attend distribution of millions-worth of fertilizers, feeds and maintenance of irrigation systems....
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 Stewing over GSIS Manager Winston’s ‘mismanagement’
By Gerry Garcia
WHAT has long peeved the millions of subordinate members of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) is the extended office term of Winston Garcia, highly paid millionaire head of the system who has been at the helm since he was under critical probe a few years ago through the government’s lifestyle check for officials who can not satisfactorily account for additional personal finances grossly disproportionate to their government salary.
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 Get a coffee
By Jun Velasco
BARANGAY Malued in Dagupan — literally our birthplace, where we spent our memorable boyhood — was in a festive mood Sunday evening.
The family of Optometry Board No. l Topnotcher Dr. Voltaire Siapno-Tada led by joyous and proud parents Ben Tada and the former Dr. Vicky Siapno, of this famous barangay, tendered...
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 What’s
happening to our fish-rich rivers, Mrs. Molina?
By Gonzalo Duque
WE’RE in Las Vegas while we write this column.
Our hosts, Raffy Villamil and pretty wife, Elvie, have been making our stay here very enjoyable and meaningful especially at the Palazzo Hotel, you can stretch your imagination how the duo made our trip a moment to remember...
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 If Hoya allows it, Pacquiao will win
By Al S. Mendoza
AFTER Jose Sulaiman, who else but the legends themselves is deciding to join the fun.
Sulaiman, the president of the World Boxing Council, has said the De La Hoya-Pacquiao fight is a battle between a “pachyderm and a hobbit horse.”
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 The vanishing rice farming rituals in Ifugao
By Sosimo Ma. Pablico
EVEN as a considerable number of Ifugao farmers no longer believe in the rice farming rituals of their ancestors, others stubbornly insist their ethnic group must continue performing those traditional rituals, saying these are their way of life.
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 Economic Fundamental
By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D.
Whenever the government wants to claim that the country is well geared for economic development or wishes to proclaim that the Philippines is in many ways over and above a given financial crisis such as the one actually taking place in the first world nations, it is already predicable what Malacañang
and its faithful followers say–as a
matter of course. Time and again the
people are emphatically told in
different words and in various ways that
the “Economic Fundamental” is in place,
that the present is good and the future
is bright. I
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 Good choice
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.
ON Thursday, September 25, SBP executive director Noli Eala announced that most likely to be appointed as the new head coach of our national basketball squad will be the Serbian Rajko Toroman.
Toroman, the former head coach of the Iran nationals arrived here last Saturday on the SBP’s invite to watch the UAAP and NCAA finals and observe the practice games of PBA
teams.
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 Machambas
By Marifi Jara
QUELIMANE, Mozambique–The police are doing it. Students in public schools have been and continue to be into it. A balikbayan has taken an initiative to get his former barangay involved in it. Another community is coalescing with the government for it.
Vegetable gardening, that is. Or backyard vegetable gardening, to be more specific.
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 Mirrors
to ourselves
By Emmanuelle
PRAISE be on us, but blame be on no other. We were the die from which these children were cast. We were their mirrors; they, mere shadows to our forms. Until they be the die, the mirror, the form themselves. And on passes the cycle - of the smooth turns and the twisted angles.
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