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Unbowed

By The broader view | By Harry Roque | June 22, 2024 - 12:00am

For the most popular elected official of the land, the die is cast, the battle lines drawn.

Opinion

‘Embo’ officials take oath before Binay

By Daphne Galvez | November 27, 2023 - 12:00am

Newly elected officials of the 10 enlisted men’s barrios or “embo” barangays, which are now under the jurisdiction...

Nation

RSA may be elected vice chair of MPIC

By Iris Gonzales | November 13, 2023 - 12:00am

Tycoon Manuel V. Pangilinan said his new business partner Ramon Ang may be appointed vice chairman of the now re-privatized...

Business

Abalos to new barangay SK officers: Serve the public

By Romina Cabrera | November 6, 2023 - 12:00am

Interior Secretary Benjamin Abalos is urging elected barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan officials to embody public service...

Headlines

‘Public execs who refuse suspension should face more sanctions’

By Cecille Suerte Felipe | August 14, 2023 - 12:00am

An additional penalty should be imposed on any elected or appointed public official who refuses to comply with an executory...

Headlines

A tale of two countries

By FROM THE STANDS | By Domini M. Torrevillas | December 3, 2020 - 12:00am

“In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.”

Opinion

What about a futuristic plan?

By Aven Piramide | December 9, 2015 - 9:00am

The worldwide recognition of the effects of climate change is a relief to mankind. We are glad that world leaders found occasion to divert their attention from their individual country's concerns to meet in Paris,...

Freeman Opinion

A kind of late warning

By Aven Piramide | October 17, 2015 - 10:00am

Now that the period for the filing of certificates of candidacy is over, the resulting number of aspirants for political posts baffles me.

Freeman Opinion

The father and child governors of Cebu

By Clarence Paul Oaminal | August 6, 2015 - 10:00am

By far, there are three Father and Child Governors of Cebu these are Parents whose son or daughter also became governors. The first of the three sets:

Freeman Opinion

Cops: 1st transgender lawmaker issued bomb threat

March 13, 2015 - 7:30am

A New Hampshire woman believed to be the first transgender person elected to a state legislature was charged Thursday with...

World