The unabated rising prices of crude oil and other petroleum products in the international market is now unbearable to the millions of Filipinos, rich and poor.

The right of reply bills, if you would look on its surface level is like a duplication of what every newspaper/magazine has provided for the readers and those for aggrieved parties that want to voice out their sides. Any public official or individual can write a letter-to- the-editor piece if he/she feels that he was treated unfairly by a reporter or a columnist.

Local bands in Maasin, Baybay, Ormoc, Tacloban and other cities in region 8 (Leyte and Samar) and even in Cebu and perhaps in Mindanao and Luzon, really need coaching from professional musicians. My years of observations on how some bands here were playing during live concerts have led me to this kind of suggestion and admonition.

The commentary of Ricardo Ma. Nolasco, PhD ?Pilipino, Filipino, Tagalog? published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nov.15, 2008) implied that the evolution that a chosen national language like Tagalog has undergone is only in name but not in its element or substance. From Pilipino, the name use in school as a subject, and Filipino as citizenship, then Filipino as both a subject and citizenship. And lastly Tagalog as the dominating base being chosen as the national language.

If Manny Pacquiao is sensitive enough to perceive the reason why some politicians and businessmen want him to run as Congressman, is that they are only riding on his popularity status. They seem not to look into consideration how the low-graded boxer would fare in his uncharted and unknown course.

Their style of editing should serve as a good model worthy of emulation by among writers/journalists who want to become editors of newspapers and magazines. Here the writers? and journalists? freedom of expressions is distinctively and fairly preserved by the these editors who shun encroachment from their scribes? way of putting their varied expressions of thought s and ideas on papers.

Maasin City, Southern Leyte – A slide is something associated with accident and every person is a potential victim of slide. If a person is careful in his steps in shiny or polished tiles inside a building or a restaurant, chances are he/she is away from accidental slides. However, this is not always the case. In most instances, particularly during a heavy rain, most decorative, smooth and glossy tiles that are part of an edifice?s floorings would become slippery from wet shoes and wet raincoats.
If you are wearing a rubber …

The residents of the town of Malitbog, Southern Leyte are now wondering if the PNP personnel of their town are still doing their jobs or are actually sleeping inside their headquarters. They started to doubt the effectiveness of their own Police force since the thieves who stole properties of several residents of the town and robbed fish vendors, peddlers, buy and sale businessmen, collectors, and other Malitbog- robbery victims are still roaming around the town and performing their stealing business.
Just recently, these thieves broke in to the Malitbog Municipal Hall …