Fil-Am councilmembers sworn into Daly City office

DALY CITY—Reelected Daly City Councilmembers Ray Buenaventura and Michael Guingona were sworn into office, along with Judith Christensen, at the City Hall on December 2. Buenaventura, Guingona and Christensen join fellow Councilmembers David Canepa and Sal Torres to comprise the 53rd City Council of a city whose motto is “Gateway to the Peninsula.” Buenaventura was…

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Christmas as told by lights and sounds

WHAT do you expect of the country’s leading commercial city? In Makati, everything is in motion—so fast and busy that one forgets to slow down and take in the beauty of the surroundings. Since 2011, this has been changing annually every Christmas Season. The Ayala Triangle, the heart of Makati’s Central Business District located between…

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Initiative

THE Philippine government is more driven to institutionalize good governance and continue walking the “tuwid na daan” (straight path). To achieve this, Presdent Benigno Aquino III vowed to strengthen and rationalize the government’s reform measures in weeding out corruption. “We are working to rid the Philippines of the corruption that has tainted its reputation and…

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On a Saturday evening

IT is the time I prepare myself for worship on Sunday, by reading beautiful and poetic stories from the Bible. Our knowledge of the Bible was limited to memorizing the Beatitudes, Psalms and part of the Story of Solomon, which my mother required of me to memorize. She considered those parts of the Bible as…

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Ground and crushed, thanks be to God!

MY fellow priest in the seminary, Fr. Leon, gave a beautiful homily last Tuesday, the day that the seminarians left for Thanksgiving break. He said that we’re like grains of wheat waiting to be harvested and to be ground so that we can become loaves of bread. We’re also like grapes waiting to be crushed…

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Sustaining growth

DESPITE efforts from the current administration to maintain the Philippine economic growth, this year’s 3rd quarter Gross Domestic product (GDP) have decelerated from the previous quarter’s 6.4 percent gain and 7 percent growth posted the same period last year, Moody’s Analytics reported. The financial service company predicts that there would be a 5.9 percent growth….

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How to solve IRS problems

READ this if you owe the IRS money and can’t pay. IRS problems have a way of ruining all aspects of your life.  They take a toll on you FINANCIALLY, PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY. They’re there when you go to bed at night and they’re there when you wake up in the morning. The IRS is…

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Pacquiao: The triumph of the spirit

THE boxing arena has all the great literary themes. Money, power, romance get played out in the careers of the these elite marquee fighters—perhaps a little bigger, a little  gaudier than the strict facts of fistic delights. A boxer’s skills erode a lot quicker in this crazy roulette like no other sports can offer. Here…

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