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                    [Title] => It will fail again
                    [Summary] => 

Charter change advocates were asked to be patient.

[DatePublished] => 2010-01-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 472409 [Title] => League of cities seeks rejection of HB 6303 [Summary] =>

CEBU, Philippines - The League of Cities of the Philippines is opposing House Bill 6303 that seeks to amend the Local Government Code to exempt the municipalities sought for conversion into cities and whose charters have already been approved by the Senate and the House of Representatives.

[DatePublished] => 2009-05-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 441051 [Title] => JDV asked to explain non-expulsion from House [Summary] =>

The House committee on ethics decided yesterday to ask Pangasinan Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr. to explain why he should not be expelled from the House as proposed by a colleague.

[DatePublished] => 2009-02-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097047 [AuthorName] => Jess Diaz [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 419233 [Title] => Erap says JDV welcome to join opposition [Summary] =>

Former President Joseph Estrada yesterday said Pangasinan Rep.

[DatePublished] => 2008-11-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 414570 [Title] => No need for new Cha-cha consultations - lawmakers [Summary] =>

Administration lawmakers see no need for new consultations with their constituents on the government’s renewed attempts to amend the Constitution that has been exhaustively discussed for several years now.

[DatePublished] => 2008-11-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 256301 [Title] => Mindanao leaders back Arroyo [Summary] => BUTUAN CITY — Mindanao leaders who attended Thursday’s post-inaugural address here appealed to their constituents to give President Arroyo a chance to lead the country for another term.

Former Agusan del Sur governor and former Caraga Regional Development Council (RDC) chairwoman Valentina Plaza called for an end to divisive politics so the country could move forward

"If we continue to be divided as a people, it will do no good for us all. We have to unite and heal wounds since politics is over," she said.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096525 [AuthorName] => Ben Serrano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 250093 [Title] => Newsmen fail to win in Caraga [Summary] => SANTIAGO, Agusan del Norte — At least seven journalists who tried their luck in the May 10 polls ended up losing to seasoned politicians in their respective areas.

The Agusan del Norte office of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), meanwhile, proclaimed Earlpe John Amante and provincial board member Dale Corvera as the new governor and vice governor, respectively, the other day.

Amante replaced her sister, Maria Angelica Rossdel Amante, who was proclaimed as the province’s new second district congresswoman.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096525 [AuthorName] => Ben Serrano [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 200102 [Title] => Rice smuggling charges vs 25 people dropped [Summary] => BUTUAN CITY — Lack of evidence.

This was the reason cited by the Office of the Ombudsman and this city’s prosecutor’s office in dismissing separate complaints against a total of 25 people, including police and Coast Guard officers, over an alleged rice smuggling incident here in July last year.

The case started when Caraga policemen intercepted before dawn of July 12 last year the unloading of imported rice from Vietnam from MV Rodeo at the Lumbocan port in Masao district here.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096525 [AuthorName] => Ben Serrano [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 197938 [Title] => From 1 to 91, each Pinoy owes P66,100 [Summary] => Filipinos are mired in debt from infancy to way past retirement age.

Each Filipino from the age of one to 91 owes at least P66,100, Camarines Sur Rep. Rolando Abaya Jr. (Lakas) said yesterday, as public debt has breached the P5-trillion mark. [DatePublished] => 2003-03-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 177110 [Title] => DPWH still looking for 150 missing vehicles [Summary] => What will they think of next?

For the past weeks, the Department of Public Works and Highways has been trying to find out what had happened to 150 vehicles owned by the DPWH that were recently discovered to be missing.

Three people whose assigned vehicles were among the missing have claimed to government auditors that they lost the vehicles to car thieves, a source privy to the inquiry told The STAR.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413632 [AuthorName] => Jose Aravilla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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