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Company-made floods
The hum of a front loader disrupted our quiet morning in Lipa. As I followed the noise, I found a front loader next door scraping off grass, weeds and vegetation on a 62-hectare new development.
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Unapologetic
After not seeing each other for several months, my friend Pastor Ferdie “The Running Pastor” Cabiling called to invite me for breakfast on a Thursday morning. I never declined Ferdie’s invitations ...
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How to catch a‘Big Fish’
Growing up in a time when ponds, creeks and canals were still clean, natural and somehow connected, one thing I learned was how to catch fish. As I think about it, the same can be done to catch a “Big ...
For 12 days, the conflict between Iran on one side and Israel and the United States on the other side witnessed the use of ballistic missiles and drones raining on both Iran and Israel. When the ...
Even before the 20th Congress has opened, an entertainer-turned-politician has promised to push for a legislated wage increase.
While populist politicians fall all over themselves to compel employers big and small to pay wages as high as the politicians’ imagination can take the amounts, national and local government ...
At exactly noon today, the term of the 19th Congress ends. All unfinished legislative business of both the Senate and the House of Representatives are deemed over and done with. And from 12:01 p.m ...
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán (SARE-he-oh mar-TEE-nez bel-TRAHN) is an immigration correspondent based in Texas. He comes from the public radio collaborative The Texas Newsroom, where he covered ...
But where to start? The key to prioritizing remedial action in matters of education is to realize that learning deficits compound over time. If you fall behind in learning in Kinder, the tendency ...
Kendra Beltran is a pop culture obsessed writer who spent her youth tirelessly jotting down ‘Total Request Live’ data after school. She took that obsession and a useless college degree, and ...