May 18, 2025

Opinion

Back to school

By One of the few attractive parts of going to school for most of the year is the absence of competition with other students for jeepneys in some months. Bakasyon ...

Other cars I would have liked to restore

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas Let us clarify though what my definition of restoration is. When it comes to vehicles, it is not to bring back a unit to mint ...

EDITORIAL

Who f——ed up in the Miss Universe Baguio event? The allegations by one participant in the Miss Universe event this week was aghast. The artists were not even served lunch ...

EDITORIAL

Du30’s insult to the Catholic Church The tirade of Du30 which included the sins and crimes of the Catholic clergy might be true but it does not justify in anyway ...

EDITORIAL

Some rebels and some policemen The majority of rebel returnees are pitiful. They could not afford so many luxurious things that the more creative of their compatriots could. If ever ...

EDITORIAL

Stressful high prices With the recent agreement among OPEC members and some non-members like Russia to lower oil production so prices would rise, we are in for hard times in ...

Zac Sarian: A Foreign Service grad to a known agriculture journalist (First of two parts)

By Danilo P. Padua, PhD In Philippine sports journalism, Mr. Quinito Henson is called the dean. I would like to add that in local agriculture journalism, we can also call ...

Roads and drivers

By Danilo P. Padua, PhD Few days ago, an overloaded Leomarick bus dived into its final destruction in a ravine in Carranglan, Nueva Ecija. Unfortunately, it resulted in the end ...

Strawberry in Ormoc City

The last time I saw Ormoc City was 23 years ago, three years after it was devastated by a flash flood in 1991 that killed thousands of people. I can ...

A challenge to promote and showcase organic farms

By Anthony A. Araos Ifugao residents-young and old alike are assured of healthy food items because organic farmers are around to take care of their vital needs. Among them is ...

Congressman Maximo B. Dalog

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas If we are to measure one’s achievement as a politician by the roads he caused to be finished, the late Congressman Maximo Dalog would be ...

More on vehicular accidents

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas I ended the article here last week with Murphy’s Law—if anything can go wrong, it will, at the worst time and place. It was like ...

The saga of Wesley So, the chess world champion

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas In our weekly lunch with fraternity brods, our conversation strayed into Wesley So’s genius as a chess player. One of us, said that he was ...

Harnessing your own natural defense and self-healing power

By Penelope A. Domogo, MD Last week we discussed our own body’s incredible defense and self-healing power. As a review, our bodies are designed to ward off foreigners- from toxins ...

The BABRC, a symbol of land problems in Baguio

By Joel B. Belinan The land tenure problems in Baguio and the nearby areas are complicated and unresolved even after several measures had already been made to settle these. Well, ...

When Rhetoric is not Backed by Numbers

Scholarly articles for progressive utilization theory The Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT): It's that time of year. No, we are not talking of Christmas which, in the Philippines, starts in September. We are talking ...

Our economy and military are intertwined

By Jan Vicente B. Pekas Ever since I became a family man, I have been the taga palengke. Not that I am too “ander de saya” as they call husbands ...