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                    [ArticleID] => 1357468
                    [Title] => Undemocratic democracy
                    [Summary] => 

This is what we get when we start to dig deeper in trenches in trying to defend our own individual causes, either as persons, groups or sectors.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135764 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1620184 [AuthorName] => Nigel Paul C. Villarete [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1186671 [Title] => Resource Allocation Schemes [Summary] =>

In last Thursday's article, we started off with some of the basics of resource allocation as practiced in official budgeting, may it be national or local, or in any subdivision of the government.

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135764 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1620184 [AuthorName] => Nigel Paul C. Villarete [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 800210 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Drug addicts as "honorable" congressmen [Summary] =>

Drug addicts are marginalized in society largely by their own choice.

[DatePublished] => 2012-04-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 544729 [Title] => Thoughts on the Party-List (Part I) [Summary] =>

The ballot for the May 2010 elections will be the longest in Philippine history. Aside from the candidates for President and Vice President all the way down to city or municipal councilors, we will also be choosing from 144 party list contenders that have been accredited by the Comelec.

[DatePublished] => 2010-01-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134856 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1249993 [AuthorName] => Dean Andy Bautista [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 460396 [Title] => Get rid of partylist only through a Con-Con [Summary] =>

There are now an additional 55 new Congressmen and women coming from the ranks of the Party-list groups, in a new formula coming from the Supreme Court alloting these new Party-list seats.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 460046 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Time to scrap sectoral representation [Summary] =>

The country is being consumed by its own political greed. When the Supreme Court ruled to elevate 32 more party-list representatives to the House of Representatives, it in effect caused the Constitutionally-mandated membership cap of 250 to be breached.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 366764 [Title] => RP ready to engage US in sectoral bilateral free trade talks [Summary] => The Philippines is ready to officially engage the US on a possible sectoral bilateral free trade agreement, Trade and Industry Secretary Peter B. Favila said yesterday.

However, according to Favila, possible talks will have to wait until after the November US elections.

US government officials, Favila said, are currently preoccupied with the upcoming elections.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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