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                    [Title] => Use Clark to absorb congestion at NAIA
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ONE CRITICAL aspect of the traffic congestion choking the national capital is the inefficient movement of people and cargo through the Ninoy Aquino International Airport terminals.

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-14 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135304 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1397349 [Title] => Recto: 2015 budget lacks rearview mirror [Summary] =>

REARVIEW NEEDED: What ever happened to the sound suggestion that the P2.606-trillion national budget for 2015 be equipped with a “rearview mirror” to show the following year how the funds appropriated this year were used?

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135304 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1299480 [Title] => Phl-US talks to define ‘rotational’ presence? [Summary] =>

PHL-US TALKS: There was paucity of details in the official update on the latest round of talks on the “rotational” presence here of American troops, but that was expected considering that both sides are locked in a delicate stage of the bargaining.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135304 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1280426 [Title] => Stained-glass view of corruption varies [Summary] =>

VARIANCE: Stained glass windows are better appreciated from inside a church than from outside. While the object is the same image, its appearance from inside is always better ­— thanks to the transparency of the glass and the sunlight filtering through it.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135304 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1268977 [Title] => Allow US access with conditions [Summary] =>

ACCESS: The United States is seeking “easier and greater access” by its military personnel to areas in the Philippines where they may be mutually needed.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135304 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1262862 [Title] => Biazon raps may just fall on GMA ally’s lap [Summary] =>

DUCUT NOT AN ALLY: “2 P-Noy allies on pork list” bannered a newspaper yesterday in an apparent attempt to show that President Noynoy Aquino was non-partisan in filing criminal complaints against those involved in the pocketing of congressional pork barrel.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135304 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1244639 [Title] => A modern port rises at old North Harbor [Summary] =>

MODERN PORT: Here is good news for Manilans, and all Filipinos for that matter, who do not go to the bustling North Harbor in Tondo except to fetch an occasional friend or relative who has taken the ship to the city.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135304 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1239389 [Title] => The corrupt probing their fellow corrupt? [Summary] =>

WHO’LL BE LEFT STANDING?: The Senate Yellow Ribbon committee should hold a final hearing soonest — but only to listen to the public confession of businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles — then disband in the name of sanity and decency.

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135304 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1211421 [Title] => Pork plunder impossible sans Executive collusion [Summary] =>

CONNIVANCE: We have said it before and we say it again: Plunder charges against lawmakers and businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles will not be credible without also prosecuting their accomplices in the Department of Budget and Management and the implementing agencies.

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135304 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1103491 [Title] => Excessive pork causes hair loss and coughing! [Summary] =>

SHORT & SWIFT: For readers who have not caught up with the short and swift world of Twitter, we share below a few of my tweets (Twitter.com@FDPascual) this week:

[DatePublished] => 2013-08-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135304 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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