Fix those archs, please!

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Dante D. Perez
11 June 2007
 
 
Dear Mr. Garcia,
Greetings.
I am Dante D. Perez, MA Communication candidate at the Ateneo de Manila University. I am a resident of Calasiao, Pangasinan and finished my undergraduate degree in Computronix College (now Colegio de Dagupan) in Dagupan City. I'm biologically a puto boy but consider myself a bangus buddy too [...]

Limitless impossiiblity

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Eduardo Pontaoe
11 June 2007
 
Ron, how can I forget? Been a long time since your last post? Two years? And what those years were, it changed everything on how I looked from a liberal side to the conservative.
I tried to believe in a belief that governance in the Philippines is workable under a president or [...]

Nothing is fair in politics

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Ms. Ric
11 June 2007
 
Emmanuelle,
True jewels are the wanderings of the mind, raw in its savaged need for answers, uninhibited in its cry for fairness, and wild in its fury for redemption.
Feelings, my friend in solitude, have I to learn from; having been in too many places at once these past few weeks, spreading [...]

Editorial

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Great Expectations

Now that the election fever has practically cooled down, more and more non-political news are surfacing. And that's a good sign. It means we're getting back into the business of our daily lives - the nitty-gritty of everyday realities.
The nation has given its verdict midway into President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's administration. The judgment is that [...]

Punchline

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Garapalan and Paldwa-an among Onor-onors

By Ermin Garcia Jr.

The recent brazen attempt of some Dagupan City councilors to allocate for themselves P10 million in pork barrel (evidently as despedida gift and a chance to recoup their campaign expenses) through the last minute [...]

Here and There

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Final push for cha-cha?

By Gerry Garcia

WE believe Speaker Joe de V was right when he said the first Philippine legislature was established in 1907 as the Philippine Assembly and [...]

Think about it

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JDV's not so new tack
By Jun Velasco

SKEPTICS are wasting their time continually speculating on the election of a new House Speaker other than the one who engineered Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's ascent to the Presidency.
Wasn't Gloria Joe de V’s running mate in l998?
So there. But that's not the story. Not anymore.
The speakership, [...]

Playing with Fire

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A grave injustice to the masa

By Gonzalo Duque

THE l3th Congress ended with a dismal report that it didn't act on a bill lowering the price of medicines.
Senator Mar Roxas whose sights are on the presidency in 20l0 is being blamed for the killing of the bill if only to please the drug multinationals with [...]

About transforming Dagupan’s skyline

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Ronaldo Castanaga
11 June 2007
 
So sorry Mr. Jess Delfin for me to pick on you for a friend. Yes sir, let it stand that way and that true friendship is earned and not free for the asking. You went deep to the hard meaning of a conscientious objector. Again, you're right there. But that's not my [...]