October 13, 2026

Opinion

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Environmental models

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas We reached Sagada mid-afternoon one Sunday early last month. We drove down the road to the direction of Ambasing to the former house of my ...

Acute appendiceal pain

By Tedler D. Depaynos, MD It was the wee hours of the morning when the patient went to the hospital because of pain in the right lower quadrant of his ...

An env’t agency sans environmentalists

By Estanislao Albano, Jr. Note: This article appeared in the Letters section of the Philippine Daily Inquirer on July 25. Explanation as to why I said there are no environmentalists ...

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There is blood in our hands There is no way we can be blameless on the current war on drugs—specifically on the death of innocent parties who never even tried ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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