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Saturday, January 26, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Pretend cities
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WE are taking the side of the
League of Cities of the Philippines in opposing the bill to grant
automatic city status to all provincial capitals. We also
sympathize with the LCP for wishing that last year’s conversion of
16 towns into cities had not happened.
House Bill 24, authored by
Zamboanga Sibugay Rep. Ann Hofer, would amend Republic Act 9009 (the
Local Government Code). The bill seeks to exempt the capital
towns of provinces from the income requirement for would-be cities.
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O T H E R C O L U M N S A
N D F E A T U R E S
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THE
OTHER VIEW
By Elmer A. Ordoñez
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Milestones
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NOW and then my wife and I are invited to
anniversaries by contemporaries to mark, say, a golden wedding (we
had one ourselves in 2006) or a diamond jubilee not for weddings...
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ABOVE
ALL THINGS
By Ramon Mabutas Jr.
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Extrajudicial
killings
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QUERY: The growing number of extrajudicial
killings, which include trial judges and mass media people as
victims, is alarming. Who do you think is responsible for this? How
can this problem be solved? Andy A.
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LAW
AND PHILOSOPHY MATTER(S)
By Atty. Emmanuel Q.Fernando
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Ethics in
journalism
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THE recent snafu of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
(Jan. 16, 2008)—of misreporting that murder convict ex-Congressman
Jose Villarosa, on hospital leave from jail,...
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NATURE
FOR LIFE
By Anabelle E. Plantilla
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The trees for
legacy program
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THE joint DILG-DENR-LGU Memorandum Circular No.
2003-01 on Strengthening and Institutionalizing the DENR-DILG-LGU
Partnership on Devolved...
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ENGLISH
PLAIN & SIMPLE
By Jose A. Carillo
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The parenthesis
and its uses-III
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WE will now discuss the appositive phrase found in
the following sentence that I had earlier presented for evaluation:
“Cleopatra, the legendary queen of Egypt from 51 B.C. until her
suicide by asp bite 21 years later,...
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ANALYSIS
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Global slowdown
could impact China
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BEIJING: Global economic weakness may be about to
do what China’s own policy-makers have been unable to: pull growth
in the world’s fourth-largest economy down from its current
dizzying heights.
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