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[Title] => Could the solution to EDSA be removing the MRT?
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Last month, August 31 to be exact, I wrote a piece calling for a state of emergency to be declared in Metro Manila, allowing the President to exercise emergency powers that could deploy the military to deal with traffic.
Business tycoon Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco Jr. or ECJ celebrated his birthday with close friends, relatives and the management and staff of San Miguel Corp. who warmly greeted their chairman during the party they hosted at Makati Shangri-La the other night. But the highlight of the evening was the former Ambassador’s “birthday gift” to his alma mater form of a P250-million endowment to the De La Salle University with no preconditions whatsoever, with DLSU at liberty to use the funds in any manner it sees fit.
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[Title] => Wanted: A better mass transit for Metro Cebu
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Last Thursday afternoon, the University of San Jose-Recoletos (USJ-R) invited this writer and Radio commentator Alex Bolongaita to speak before the College of Law professors and students on the topic of “Federalism: A form of government, its advantages and disadvantages.” Atty. Jonathan Capanas, Dean of the College of Law sent us the invitation.
The Quezon City government has apologized to those affected by a road clearing operation conducted by local government personnel in the University of the Philippines (UP) campus in Diliman on Tuesday.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority yesterday cited erratic weather conditions in Metro Manila in explaining the government’s plan to remove the “underutilized” bicycle lane along EDSA.
Mobility advocates scored the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority after proposing the removal of bicycle lanes on EDSA — a move seen by the group as counter to the president's directive on sustainable modes of transportation.
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