“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”— Dwight D. Eisenhower PRESUMPTIVE future lady solon Raisa Treñas should start showing the Ilonggo voters that she is her own woman despite being publicly endorsed by her dad, Iloilo City mayor
March 22, 2024
“I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.”— John Grisham A TIT for a
March 21, 2024
“I am still learning.”—Michelangelo INCIDENTS of teachers—both in private and public schools—losing their patience and exploding in anger inside the classrooms are not new. Every now and then there are teachers who waste a big chunk of teaching hour to reprimand the students or mightily release their hard feelings in front
March 20, 2024
“Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!”— George M. Cohan IF Iloilo City lone district Rep. Julienne “Jamjam” Baronda can’t secure a third and final term and bows out from the congressional race to pave the way for “Tito
March 19, 2024
“I love you and it is for real. I don’t care about how others categorize my love for you.” – Andrew Bolt ILOILO City resident Felipe David has escaped a jail term while four other fellow Filipino co-accused in a large-scale marriage fraud “agency” based in Los Angeles have been convicted
March 16, 2024
“I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.”—Sophocles LEAKED questionnaire in a university admission examination is also a form of cheating. It appears cheating—or our inclination to commit it if given the opportunity—has become part of our culture and identity. I once caught an officemate in a
March 15, 2024
“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.”—Pope John XXIII UNTIl this day, Amalia’s search for her biological father that began when she was eight years old continues. “That was the age when my life started to turn hell,” Amalia, who turned
March 14, 2024
“I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.”— Jennifer Garner BEFORE the 2020 pandemic, we used to pay $2.75 per ride in the subway train and in all other Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) public transportations in New York
March 13, 2024
“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”— Mao Zedong BEFORE his 50th birthday in March 1972, the late former Iloilo City mayor Rodolfo “Bagyo Roding” Ganzon survived an ambush that killed his four bodyguards on Mapa St. in downtown, City Proper. The entourage of two cars reportedly
March 12, 2024
“I am to be loved, honored and respected solely because I exist. I am to be cherished, spoiled, celebrated because I Am! I was made to be admired. I am a beloved child of God after all.”―Emmanuella Raphaelle IF he is allowed, or will be interested, to run for president (granting
March 11, 2024
“Violence has always been unfortunately embedded in masculinity, this alpha thing.”—Sebastian Stan A MAN who is reportedly the “great grandson” of Pancho Villa was apparently picking at random people he wanted to hurt with a steely chain whip when he chanced upon me in the gate on my way outside the
March 9, 2024
