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                    [Title] => Same old… same old…
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As State of the Nation Addresses go, this one by BBM last Monday is par for the course. It told us nothing new about the state of our nation we aren’t sorry about. And there was no big vision. Only bits and pieces of unfinished business from the past.

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I could not go along with the proposal of Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago that there should be a prescribed uniform for all members of the Senate and the House of Representatives attending any and all future State of the Nation Addresses of the president.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 856061 [Title] => P-Noy reappoints 3 PDIC directors [Summary] =>

Three board members of the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) have been re-appointed by President Aquino to fresh one-year terms.

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Largely ignored by the Manila-based media, Mindanao has been enduring rotating brownouts for weeks.

[DatePublished] => 2012-03-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 709469 [Title] => The SONA and self-flagellation [Summary] => I don’t know who started this State of the Nation Address thing, but I am sure it is not us. [DatePublished] => 2011-07-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 598693 [Title] => Let the next five SONAs be in English [Summary] =>

A State of the Nation Address is not an ordinary speech. It is a speech by the chief policy-maker of a nation.

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The SONA was delivered like a PERSONAL achievement list.

[DatePublished] => 2009-07-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133239 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1223596 [AuthorName] => Cherry Piquero Ballescas [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 461338 [Title] => GMA urges completion of priority projects [Summary] =>

MANILA, Philippines - President Arroyo reiterated her directive to all agencies to speed up completion of priority government programs and projects to ensure the timely and efficient delivery of public services to the people.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805432 [AuthorName] => Paolo Romero [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 289277 [Title] => ‘GMA back on campaign trail’ [Summary] => It looks like President Arroyo, by launching a media offensive, is back on the campaign trail, House Deputy Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano said yesterday.

"At the rate she’s making promises in her image makeover effort, she seems to be running her May 2004 election campaign all over again," he said.

Cayetano said among other commitments, he heard Mrs. Arroyo promising irrigation and other projects, jobs, a salary increase for certain groups of government workers, and reconciliation with forces identified with the EDSA I, II and III uprisings.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 288145 [Title] => Archbishop Cruz to Arroyo: Tell real state of the nation [Summary] => Archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan Oscar Cruz called on President Arroyo yesterday to "tell the truth" when she delivers her State of the Nation Address before a joint session of Congress today.

"The precarious situation of the country makes mandatory the telling of truth, the presentation of reality," he said.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097368 [AuthorName] => Mike Frialde [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
State of the Nation Addresses
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                (
                    [ArticleID] => 2462187
                    [Title] => Same old… same old…
                    [Summary] => 

As State of the Nation Addresses go, this one by BBM last Monday is par for the course. It told us nothing new about the state of our nation we aren’t sorry about. And there was no big vision. Only bits and pieces of unfinished business from the past.

[DatePublished] => 2025-08-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136475 [Focus] => 1 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1015491 [Title] => Shameless flaunting of insensitivity [Summary] =>

I could not go along with the proposal of Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago that there should be a prescribed uniform for all members of the Senate and the House of Representatives attending any and all future State of the Nation Addresses of the president.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 856061 [Title] => P-Noy reappoints 3 PDIC directors [Summary] =>

Three board members of the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) have been re-appointed by President Aquino to fresh one-year terms.

[DatePublished] => 2012-10-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 791069 [Title] => Brownouts [Summary] =>

Largely ignored by the Manila-based media, Mindanao has been enduring rotating brownouts for weeks.

[DatePublished] => 2012-03-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 709469 [Title] => The SONA and self-flagellation [Summary] => I don’t know who started this State of the Nation Address thing, but I am sure it is not us. [DatePublished] => 2011-07-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 598693 [Title] => Let the next five SONAs be in English [Summary] =>

A State of the Nation Address is not an ordinary speech. It is a speech by the chief policy-maker of a nation.

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 491465 [Title] => SONA vs PERsonaL [Summary] =>

The SONA was delivered like a PERSONAL achievement list.

[DatePublished] => 2009-07-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133239 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1223596 [AuthorName] => Cherry Piquero Ballescas [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 461338 [Title] => GMA urges completion of priority projects [Summary] =>

MANILA, Philippines - President Arroyo reiterated her directive to all agencies to speed up completion of priority government programs and projects to ensure the timely and efficient delivery of public services to the people.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805432 [AuthorName] => Paolo Romero [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 289277 [Title] => ‘GMA back on campaign trail’ [Summary] => It looks like President Arroyo, by launching a media offensive, is back on the campaign trail, House Deputy Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano said yesterday.

"At the rate she’s making promises in her image makeover effort, she seems to be running her May 2004 election campaign all over again," he said.

Cayetano said among other commitments, he heard Mrs. Arroyo promising irrigation and other projects, jobs, a salary increase for certain groups of government workers, and reconciliation with forces identified with the EDSA I, II and III uprisings.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 288145 [Title] => Archbishop Cruz to Arroyo: Tell real state of the nation [Summary] => Archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan Oscar Cruz called on President Arroyo yesterday to "tell the truth" when she delivers her State of the Nation Address before a joint session of Congress today.

"The precarious situation of the country makes mandatory the telling of truth, the presentation of reality," he said.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097368 [AuthorName] => Mike Frialde [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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