Array
(
    [results] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 2049834
                    [Title] => Lacson: Kickbacks in the implementation of public works projects ‘an open secret’
                    [Summary] => "It has become an open secret that commissions or kickbacks have become the rule rather than the exception in the implementation of public works projects involving not only some corrupt officials of the department but some legislators as well," Lacson said. 
                    [DatePublished] => 2020-10-15 18:15:00
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1806784
                    [AuthorName] => Bella Perez-Rubio
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
                    [SectionUrl] => headlines
                    [URL] => https://media.philstar.com/photos/2020/10/15/lacson-1_2020-10-15_18-02-16_thumbnail.jpg
                )

            [1] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 1506984
                    [Title] => People's vigilance in the scrutiny of the 2016 budget
                    [Summary] => 
We should be vigilant. The proposed budget for 2016 has all the earmarks of an election budget. It calls for spending beyond our means.

                    [DatePublished] => 2015-10-03 10:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 136164
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1148714
                    [AuthorName] => Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [2] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 1484622
                    [Title] => Lump sums
                    [Summary] => 
PAGKATAPOS ni Senator Bongbong Marcos (BBL), Congressman Neri Colmenares (DAP) at Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio (West Philippine Sea), si Senator Ping Lacson naman ang humarap sa Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM) community bilang bahagi ng Golden Anniversary lecture series.

                    [DatePublished] => 2015-08-04 10:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 135410
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1805107
                    [AuthorName] => Ernesto P. Maceda Jr.
                    [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon
                    [SectionUrl] => opinyon
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [3] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 1418675
                    [Title] => Monumental leadership failures and what causes them
                    [Summary] => 
The first impulse of ordinary mortals nowadays is to blame the President for the bloody massacre of 44 police troopers in Maguindanao. In fact, he is being criticized for not being present in the Villamor Air Base for the arrival honors given to the 42 (the two of the 42 victims were buried immediately as Muslims in accordance with Islamic rules) fallen heroes' bodies.

                    [DatePublished] => 2015-01-31 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1146528
                    [AuthorName] => Atty Josephus Jimenez
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [4] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 1323749
                    [Title] => Word war
                    [Summary] => 
Pagasa says there's a low pressure area developing in the West Philippines Sea.

                    [DatePublished] => 2014-05-16 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 134303
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1431352
                    [AuthorName] => Juanito V. Jabat   

                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [5] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 1316209
                    [Title] => A quorum of senators
                    [Summary] => 
Former Senator Panfilo Lacson, now presidential assistant on rehabilitation and recovery, revealed that Janet Lim-Napoles’ husband and two children had met with him offering Janet to turn state witness.

                    [DatePublished] => 2014-04-26 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 135492
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1307672
                    [AuthorName] => Ernesto M.  Maceda
                    [SectionName] => Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [6] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 1275736
                    [Title] => DPWH chief to resign if 'Yolanda' bunkhouses are overpriced
                    [Summary] => 
(UPDATED) The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) denied on Monday that there was overpricing in the construction of bunkhouses as temporary shelters for families affected by Super Typhoon "Yolanda."

                    [DatePublished] => 2014-01-06 12:55:11
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1473499
                    [AuthorName] => Louis  Bacani
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
                    [SectionUrl] => headlines
                    [URL] => http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/4549/np4s.jpg
                )

            [7] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 1131701
                    [Title] => Why Senator Ping Lacson?
                    [Summary] => 
A small reminder before I begin this column: If you are concerned about our country be in Luneta tomorrow morning to make a stand against pork barrel corruption.

                    [DatePublished] => 2013-08-25 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 134199
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1804784
                    [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa
                    [SectionName] => Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [8] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 978101
                    [Title] => Miriam: Lacson bilang anti-crime czar, ilegal
                    [Summary] => 
Tinawag kahapon na ilegal, imoral at katawa-tawa ni Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago ang plano na ga­wing crime czar si dating Senator Ping Lacson na mamumuno sa bubuuing Presidential Commission Against Corruption.

                    [DatePublished] => 2013-07-17 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1097275
                    [AuthorName] =>  Malou Escudero
                    [SectionName] => Bansa
                    [SectionUrl] => bansa
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [9] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 822923
                    [Title] => What labor really expects from the SONA
                    [Summary] => 
Based on his past two SONAs, labor is not really expecting too much from the President this time. The nation is facing just too many problems both in the international and the local fronts.
                    [DatePublished] => 2012-06-30 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 134002
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1146528
                    [AuthorName] => Atty Josephus Jimenez
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
                    [URL] => 
                )

        )

)

SENATOR PING LACSON

Array
(
    [results] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 2049834
                    [Title] => Lacson: Kickbacks in the implementation of public works projects ‘an open secret’
                    [Summary] => "It has become an open secret that commissions or kickbacks have become the rule rather than the exception in the implementation of public works projects involving not only some corrupt officials of the department but some legislators as well," Lacson said. 
                    [DatePublished] => 2020-10-15 18:15:00
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1806784
                    [AuthorName] => Bella Perez-Rubio
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
                    [SectionUrl] => headlines
                    [URL] => https://media.philstar.com/photos/2020/10/15/lacson-1_2020-10-15_18-02-16_thumbnail.jpg
                )

            [1] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 1506984
                    [Title] => People's vigilance in the scrutiny of the 2016 budget
                    [Summary] => 
We should be vigilant. The proposed budget for 2016 has all the earmarks of an election budget. It calls for spending beyond our means.

                    [DatePublished] => 2015-10-03 10:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 136164
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1148714
                    [AuthorName] => Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [2] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 1484622
                    [Title] => Lump sums
                    [Summary] => 
PAGKATAPOS ni Senator Bongbong Marcos (BBL), Congressman Neri Colmenares (DAP) at Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio (West Philippine Sea), si Senator Ping Lacson naman ang humarap sa Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM) community bilang bahagi ng Golden Anniversary lecture series.

                    [DatePublished] => 2015-08-04 10:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 135410
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1805107
                    [AuthorName] => Ernesto P. Maceda Jr.
                    [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon
                    [SectionUrl] => opinyon
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [3] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 1418675
                    [Title] => Monumental leadership failures and what causes them
                    [Summary] => 
The first impulse of ordinary mortals nowadays is to blame the President for the bloody massacre of 44 police troopers in Maguindanao. In fact, he is being criticized for not being present in the Villamor Air Base for the arrival honors given to the 42 (the two of the 42 victims were buried immediately as Muslims in accordance with Islamic rules) fallen heroes' bodies.

                    [DatePublished] => 2015-01-31 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1146528
                    [AuthorName] => Atty Josephus Jimenez
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [4] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 1323749
                    [Title] => Word war
                    [Summary] => 
Pagasa says there's a low pressure area developing in the West Philippines Sea.

                    [DatePublished] => 2014-05-16 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 134303
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1431352
                    [AuthorName] => Juanito V. Jabat   

                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [5] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 1316209
                    [Title] => A quorum of senators
                    [Summary] => 
Former Senator Panfilo Lacson, now presidential assistant on rehabilitation and recovery, revealed that Janet Lim-Napoles’ husband and two children had met with him offering Janet to turn state witness.

                    [DatePublished] => 2014-04-26 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 135492
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1307672
                    [AuthorName] => Ernesto M.  Maceda
                    [SectionName] => Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [6] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 1275736
                    [Title] => DPWH chief to resign if 'Yolanda' bunkhouses are overpriced
                    [Summary] => 
(UPDATED) The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) denied on Monday that there was overpricing in the construction of bunkhouses as temporary shelters for families affected by Super Typhoon "Yolanda."

                    [DatePublished] => 2014-01-06 12:55:11
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1473499
                    [AuthorName] => Louis  Bacani
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
                    [SectionUrl] => headlines
                    [URL] => http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/4549/np4s.jpg
                )

            [7] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 1131701
                    [Title] => Why Senator Ping Lacson?
                    [Summary] => 
A small reminder before I begin this column: If you are concerned about our country be in Luneta tomorrow morning to make a stand against pork barrel corruption.

                    [DatePublished] => 2013-08-25 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 134199
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1804784
                    [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa
                    [SectionName] => Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [8] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 978101
                    [Title] => Miriam: Lacson bilang anti-crime czar, ilegal
                    [Summary] => 
Tinawag kahapon na ilegal, imoral at katawa-tawa ni Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago ang plano na ga­wing crime czar si dating Senator Ping Lacson na mamumuno sa bubuuing Presidential Commission Against Corruption.

                    [DatePublished] => 2013-07-17 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1097275
                    [AuthorName] =>  Malou Escudero
                    [SectionName] => Bansa
                    [SectionUrl] => bansa
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [9] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 822923
                    [Title] => What labor really expects from the SONA
                    [Summary] => 
Based on his past two SONAs, labor is not really expecting too much from the President this time. The nation is facing just too many problems both in the international and the local fronts.
                    [DatePublished] => 2012-06-30 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 134002
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1146528
                    [AuthorName] => Atty Josephus Jimenez
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
                    [URL] => 
                )

        )

)

abtest

Lacson: Kickbacks in the implementation of public works projects ‘an open secret’

By Bella Perez-Rubio | October 15, 2020 - 6:15pm

"It has become an open secret that commissions or kickbacks have become the rule rather than the exception in the implementation...

Headlines

People's vigilance in the scrutiny of the 2016 budget

By Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez | October 3, 2015 - 10:00am

We should be vigilant. The proposed budget for 2016 has all the earmarks of an election budget. It calls for spending beyond our means.

Freeman Opinion

Lump sums

By Ernesto P. Maceda Jr. | August 4, 2015 - 10:00am

PAGKATAPOS ni Senator Bongbong Marcos (BBL), Congressman Neri Colmenares (DAP) at Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio (West Philippine Sea), si Senator Ping Lacson naman ang humarap sa Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng...

PSN Opinyon

Monumental leadership failures and what causes them

By Atty Josephus Jimenez | January 31, 2015 - 12:00am

The first impulse of ordinary mortals nowadays is to blame the President for the bloody massacre of 44 police troopers in Maguindanao. In fact, he is being criticized for not being present in the Villamor Air Base...

Freeman Opinion

Word war

By Juanito V. Jabat   | May 16, 2014 - 12:00am

Pagasa says there's a low pressure area developing in the West Philippines Sea.

Freeman Opinion

A quorum of senators

By SEARCH FOR TRUTH | By Ernesto M. Maceda | April 26, 2014 - 12:00am

Former Senator Panfilo Lacson, now presidential assistant on rehabilitation and recovery, revealed that Janet Lim-Napoles’ husband and two children had met with him offering Janet to turn state witness.

Opinion

DPWH chief to resign if 'Yolanda' bunkhouses are overpriced

By Louis Bacani | January 6, 2014 - 12:55pm

(UPDATED) The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) denied on Monday that there was overpricing in the construction...

Headlines

Why Senator Ping Lacson?

By FROM A DISTANCE | By Carmen N. Pedrosa | August 25, 2013 - 12:00am

A small reminder before I begin this column: If you are concerned about our country be in Luneta tomorrow morning to make a stand against pork barrel corruption.

Opinion

Miriam: Lacson bilang anti-crime czar, ilegal

By Malou Escudero | July 17, 2013 - 12:00am

Tinawag kahapon na ilegal, imoral at katawa-tawa ni Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago ang plano na ga­wing crime czar si dating Senator Ping Lacson na mamumuno sa bubuuing Presidential Commission Against Cor...

Bansa

What labor really expects from the SONA

By Atty Josephus Jimenez | June 30, 2012 - 12:00am

Based on his past two SONAs, labor is not really expecting too much from the President this time. The nation is facing just too many problems both in the international and the local fronts.

Freeman Opinion