October 19, 2026

Editorial

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El Niño

El Niño is soon upon us and the people are expected to survive on the bare minimum. Store rainwaters on buckets, filter waters to make them drinkable, reuse water, and ...

Patriarchal homes

Boys and girls are supposed to be equal. That is what we have been taught. However, we can’t deny our patriarchal society that remains pervasive to this day. Men hold ...

Hypocrites

The Baguio Horror Festival has met with such fierce resistance that one wonders where is that same attitude towards the prevalence of gambling in the city and larger scale of ...

Expensive graduation affairs

Usually, college graduations happen during the end of the second semester or during summer. However, some universities with trimester programs graduate some of their students at the end of the ...

Resources

In Mankayan, Benguet another invasion for our resources is being conducted. The soldiers to enforce being the local authorities, and the ones who made it even possible for the event, ...

Surplus labor during rainy days

We have seen it again the past one and a half months of continuous rains. People were forced to remain in their homes doing almost nothing. While there was not ...

Rely on the people

After the devastation brought about by the recent rains, the people who have suffered the most, the poorest and most unfortunate are faced with the task of rebuilding. To rebuild ...

Every storm

Though it was never fun to commute to work or classes, the series of rains have only made the experience much worse. Most of us do not have private cars ...

Anger

Anger, they say, is a feeling that is to be avoided. It is dangerous and is an emotion that will get somebody hurt. But that is a narrative that is ...

Defenseless

The Philippines is still unprepared. That much can be surmised from the recent heavy rains. Mere monsoons, albeit enhanced, is enough to expose the many obvious and underlying problems in ...

Alex Eala made Filipinos proud

She is barely out of her teens yet it took her, a very young lady to make Filipinos proud to the whole world. How about the political leaders of this ...

These hard times

As we have predicted early on, the economic sufferings we are enduring now, will last long. And just like in past situations, did government come to your aid? NO. The ...

What it takes to survive

If you had been following me through the articles I write for this paper then you know that I had been practically “mothballed” the past five years or so. I ...

If not autonomy, what?

A few days ago was the Cordillera Day. The day felt like an ordinary day. Indeed, it was. For autonomy, as was evident for more than a decade already was ...

Always remember

How lucky are we that typhoon Inday only managed to graze us with its tail. The former super typhoon did not land on our shores but just look how vulnerable ...

The valuable lesson from Alex Ealas’s last game

We ride on with the Alex Eala mania. In her last game in Wimbledon against Maya Joint who earlier defeated her in a heartbreaking manner, it appeared she would be ...

The right attitude during disasters

It is rainy season again. But even with the season’s regularity we seem to be always unprepared for its victims. Up to now we don’t have buildings specifically for that ...

Education

This day, June 19, is the birthday of our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal. It is a convenient time given that just some days ago, were the first day of ...

Natural hazards

Throughout social media, we have seen the videos of structures in Mindanao shaking from the effects of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Buildings collapsed and even schools just a few feet ...

An advice

I know somebody, a young lad, whose plate is full of troubling issues now. I advised him thus, the secret to life is to keep on going. It is not ...

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