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                    [ArticleID] => 1512274
                    [Title] => Think country!
                    [Summary] => 

The candidates have already spoken.

[DatePublished] => 2015-10-18 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133536 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804832 [AuthorName] => Sara Soliven De Guzman [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1385941 [Title] => Distrusted [Summary] =>

Of all the sectors of our society, government enjoys the least trust of our people. This is the sad finding of the Philippine Trust Index (PTI), a survey-based study produced by public relations firm Eon.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1336783 [Title] => Will P-Noy, Abad go to jail due to DAP? [Summary] =>

The presidential pork barrel is bad — so don’t do it again. Will the SC rule that way?

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134276 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805283 [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1315607 [Title] => Make public Napoles list, De Lima urged [Summary] =>

Justice Secretary Leila de Lima should make public the list of former and incumbent legislators and government officials who also allegedly put their priority development assistance fund to bogus non-government organizations of businesswoman Janet Napoles.

[DatePublished] => 2014-04-24 14:55:59 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1262583 [AuthorName] => Dennis Carcamo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1242308 [Title] => Problems and solutions [Summary] =>

With this administration’s intransigence in retaining the pork barrel, it looks like our country is in for a lot more of divisive and detrimental strife leading us to nowhere but back to square one in our fight against corruption.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133340 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804883 [AuthorName] => Jose C. Sison [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1177001 [Title] => Militant groups preparing for Sept. 13 protest vs ‘pork’ scam [Summary] =>

Militant, cause-oriented and religious organizations are preparing for a mass action against the pork barrel scam on Sept. 13 in Rizal Park.

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1685860 [AuthorName] => Rhodina Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 966511 [Title] => Oh no, not again [Summary] =>

Here I am in the city that had given my family and I refuge in difficult years of political turmoil in the Philippines. I am staying with my daughter, Marta in a district that we had once lived in as exiles — SW15 — a green and leafy suburb.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 962504 [Title] => A call for judicial reforms [Summary] =>

The business sector is obviously very happy with the performance of the P-Noy government. A letter to the President by the 13 biggest business groups in the country said:

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133740 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1302661 [AuthorName] => Elfren S. Cruz [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 780585 [Title] => PCGG @26 [Summary] =>

Year in, year out, on this day, the “veterans” of the 1986 People Power Revolution heave a collective breath to bemoan and bewail the waning spirit of EDSA.

[DatePublished] => 2012-02-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134856 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1249993 [AuthorName] => Dean Andy Bautista [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 773950 [Title] => Hunger amidst plenty [Summary] =>

The December 2011 survey of the SWS (Social Weather Stations) confirms that an estimated 21.5 percent or 4.3 million families nationwide did not have anything to eat in the last three months.

[DatePublished] => 2012-02-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133239 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1223596 [AuthorName] => Cherry Piquero Ballescas [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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