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EDITORIAL - Serve up the lollipop

February 9, 2010 - 12:00am

When President Arroyo, during a brief visit to Asiatown I.T. Park last week, commented that Cebu was fast emerging as the number one destination of business process outsourcing firms worldwide, she was referring...

Freeman Opinion

Rain

By Jerry Tundag | August 10, 2009 - 12:00am

When President Arroyo delivered her State of the Nation Address last July 27, it rained so hard her critics claimed the heavens cried to show God’s displeasure.

Freeman Opinion

EDITORIAL - The cost of migration

July 23, 2009 - 12:00am

When President Arroyo delivers her final State of the Nation Address next week, she is sure to mention economic gains under her watch.

Opinion

EDITORIAL - We are as bad, or even worse than, Arroyo

July 10, 2009 - 12:00am

President Arroyo is paying a huge price for being terribly unpopular.

Freeman Opinion

EDITORIAL - Painful snub

February 10, 2009 - 12:00am

When President Arroyo went to Washington last week to attend the National Prayer Breakfast in which President Obama was the guest speaker, she was hoping to meet, even briefly, the US leader.

Freeman Opinion

Lives caught up in oil

By Jerry Tundag | July 23, 2008 - 12:00am

Freeman Opinion

Failure to release reward money hurting drive vs drug syndicates

By Non Alquitran | January 9, 2006 - 12:00am

The failure of the government to reward drug informants is hurting it’s war against drug syndicates. For the past six months, not a single drug laboratory or warehouse was neutralized because informants are...

Metro

Why nobody is smiling

By Jerry Tundag | December 7, 2005 - 12:00am

Just as there had been nothing illegal in President Arroyo calling then Comelec commissioner Virgilio Garcillano, so should there be nothing similarly illegal in, as it turns out now, mostly opposition figures also...

Freeman Opinion

Mending fences where there are none to mend

By Jerry Tundag | November 28, 2005 - 12:00am

President Arroyo is now trying to mend fences with the press, with whom she has had a rather nasty brush after calling journalists as purveyors of doom, and has declared December as National Press Congress Month,...

Freeman Opinion

‘Release P197 M for Pangasinan bridge’

October 9, 2005 - 12:00am

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan — Gov. Victor Agbayani is asking the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to release the remaining P197 million for the completion of the P740.52-million, 18-span Domalandan Bridge...

Nation