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The true state of the Philippines today!

By Bobit S. Avila | January 2, 2015 - 12:00am

It's the second day of January 2015 and let's start this year with very important lessons that hopefully our readers would end up realizing that they should never, never accept the status quo and find ways to change...

Freeman Opinion

This New Year should be a year of change!

By SHOOTING STRAIGHT | By Bobit S. Avila | January 1, 2015 - 12:00am

This is our first column for the Year 2015 and before I wrote this piece, I re-read all my previous New Year’s columns in the last five years and come to think of it, those first columns for the New Year sounded...

Opinion

Transformation will lead us to the truth

By SHOOTING STRAIGHT | By Bobit S. Avila | August 28, 2014 - 12:00am

I was out for four days in Sydney, Australia and therefore out of circulation because we were off to see so many tourism sites in Australia.

Opinion

A transformation council for Bangsamoro?

By SHOOTING STRAIGHT | By Bobit S. Avila | April 24, 2014 - 12:00am

Yesterday I had lunch with my fellow STAR columnist Ma’am Chit Pedrosa and we had so many issues that we discussed on the table and her favorite topics: crowd sourcing constitutional change, the National Transformation...

Opinion

Will an impeach Aquino move prosper?

By Bobit S. Avila | April 24, 2014 - 12:00am

At lunch yesterday with my fellow Star columnist Ma'am Chit Pedrosa, who is also my Facebook friend, we talked about so many things and amongst them is one of her favorite articles about a crowd sourced Constitution,...

Freeman Opinion

Still on the issue of golf caddies

By Bobit S. Avila | January 17, 2014 - 12:00am

Last Wednesday I was able to play my first round for the 33rd Coral Invitational Golf Tournament despite the efforts by the Associated Labor Unions to disrupt the golf tournament of the Cebu Country Club by urging...

Freeman Opinion

Ready or not… please pass your papers!!!

By Bobit S. Avila | May 6, 2013 - 12:00am

For our special presentation on our talk show on Straight from the Sky, we bring you the concerns of Persons with Disabilities (PWD) and their rights during Election Day.

Freeman Opinion

Why the CBCP no longer trusts the PPCRV

By Bobit S. Avila | March 27, 2013 - 12:00am

The big news in the election front is that the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) National Secretariat for Social Action (CBCP-NASSA) has dropped their support for the Parish Pastoral Council...

Freeman Opinion

Political dynasties breed on pork barrel

By SHOOTING STRAIGHT | By Bobit S. Avila | November 3, 2012 - 12:00am

One of the major issues that permeated the Filipino mind while I was out in Rome is the issue on political dynasties.

Opinion

The proverbial cat is now out of the bag!

By Bobit S. Avila | February 20, 2012 - 12:00am

This week the nation celebrates the 26th anniversary of the EDSA People’s Power Revolution and surely by now we as a people must have already realized that we have not progressed as a nation since those tumultuous...

Freeman Opinion