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                    [Title] => 1,713 leptospirosis cases recorded
                    [Summary] => 

The Department of Health (DOH) has recorded a total of 1,713 cases of leptospirosis due to the massive flooding triggered by the southwest monsoon early last month.

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 341 [Title] => Who’s afraid of quick counts and exit polls? - AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo [Summary] =>

Team Unity spokesmen Ace Durano and Tonypet Albano were desperately trying to discredit the media quick counts last Tuesday which showed Opposition Senate candidates dominating their administration counterparts. They were particularly critical of the ABS-CBN Quick Count which showed an 8-2-2 Senate outcome for the Genuine Opposition (GO), Independents (Ind) and the administration’s Team Unity (TU), in that order. 

[DatePublished] => 2007-05-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 249814 [Title] => Namfrel ‘quick count’ bogs down to slow-mo [Summary] => TOTAL Q.C. SHUTOUT: In Quezon City, if you haven’t heard this fantastic news yet, Mayor Sonny Belmonte scored a total shutout of comebacking Mel Mathay.

When the final official tally comes days from now, it will show Belmonte leading Mathay by a thumping 400,000 votes in a contest where only about 900,000 ballots were cast! That is more than a landslide.

Belmonte defeated Mathay in all precincts, all barangays, all districts and in all Quezon City. There was not one tiny spot where Mathay posed a serious challenge.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136322 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 248928 [Title] => Comelec decides today row over 3-term mayor [Summary] => UNANIMOUS DECISION: Good news for the patient people of Mabalacat, Pampanga!

The Commission on Elections is set to announce today its decision on three petitions to disqualify three-term Mayor Marino "Boking" Morales from running for a fourth term on Monday.

Presiding Commissioner Mehol K. Sadain of the Comelec’s 2nd Division has scheduled the promulgation at 10 a.m. today. With him in what sources said is a unanimous decision are commissioners Florentino A. Tuason Jr. and Manuel A. Barcelona.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136322 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 247540 [Title] => The STAR, ABS-CBN team up for ‘Halalan 2004’ [Summary] => ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. links up with The Philippine STAR for a round-the-clock news and information update in the upcoming election dubbed Halalan 2004. The marathon coverage will begin on May 9, with the launch of the Sunday edition of TV Patrol and ends on May 11.

Correspondents from the network and The STAR will work side by side for a joint coverage of the candidates’ campaign trail, election day, the counting of the votes, and through the declaration of the country’s new President.
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 227725 [Title] => Can Comelec safeguard integrity of 2004 polls? [Summary] => WAIT FOR 2004: It is obvious that the objective of those unruly marches in Makati yesterday was to pressure President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to resign. (She won’t.)

Why disturb the peace to force a quick turnover when the May 2004 elections are just six short months away? If the opposition wants to change the sitting President, the best way to do this is to field candidates who can do better than the incumbent.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136322 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 226866 [Title] => Only politicians win in ‘win-win’ solution [Summary] => TAMA NA!: Many people feel their blood pressure soaring and some start vomiting when politicians talk of their working out "covenants" and "win-win" solutions to problems that they themselves had created.

Tama na yang
"win-win" at "covenant-covenant" ninyo, hoy!

"Win-win" merely means that the politicians will all come out winners and the people losers. Similarly, the vaunted "covenant" is the offspring of compromise born after principles are tossed out for expediency. [DatePublished] => 2003-11-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136322 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 226615 [Title] => Why is Abalos insisting on P300-M quick count? [Summary] => STRANGE BEHAVIOR: There’s something strange going on in the Commission on Elections. Or in the minds of Comelec chairman Ben Abalos and his fellow commissioners.

We could have had a Citizens’ Quick Count done by professionals at no cost to the government, but Abalos et al. want to conduct their own Comelec Quick Count for the May 2004 elections at a cost of P300 million.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136322 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 86474 [Title] => STAR, ABS-CBN team up for biggest poll coverage [Summary] =>
This is what The Philippine STAR and broadcast giant ABS-CBN promise to deliver as they embark on a multimedia coverage of tomorrow’s elections dubbed "Halalan 2001."

The coverage is described as the biggest and most trustworthy in the country’s history, combining the expertise in news gathering and the resources of The Philippine STAR and ABS-CBN.
[DatePublished] => 2001-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204093 [AuthorName] => by Tammy Mendoza [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 90677 [Title] => STAR, ABS-CBN team up for biggest poll coverage [Summary] => News coverage at its best and finest.

This is what The Philippine STAR and broadcast giant ABS-CBN promise to deliver as they embark on a multimedia coverage of tomorrow’s elections dubbed "Halalan 2001."

The coverage is described as the biggest and most trustworthy in the country’s history, combining the expertise in news gathering and the resources of The Philippine STAR and ABS-CBN.
[DatePublished] => 2001-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204093 [AuthorName] => by Tammy Mendoza [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => 1,713 leptospirosis cases recorded
                    [Summary] => 

The Department of Health (DOH) has recorded a total of 1,713 cases of leptospirosis due to the massive flooding triggered by the southwest monsoon early last month.

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 341 [Title] => Who’s afraid of quick counts and exit polls? - AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo [Summary] =>

Team Unity spokesmen Ace Durano and Tonypet Albano were desperately trying to discredit the media quick counts last Tuesday which showed Opposition Senate candidates dominating their administration counterparts. They were particularly critical of the ABS-CBN Quick Count which showed an 8-2-2 Senate outcome for the Genuine Opposition (GO), Independents (Ind) and the administration’s Team Unity (TU), in that order. 

[DatePublished] => 2007-05-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 249814 [Title] => Namfrel ‘quick count’ bogs down to slow-mo [Summary] => TOTAL Q.C. SHUTOUT: In Quezon City, if you haven’t heard this fantastic news yet, Mayor Sonny Belmonte scored a total shutout of comebacking Mel Mathay.

When the final official tally comes days from now, it will show Belmonte leading Mathay by a thumping 400,000 votes in a contest where only about 900,000 ballots were cast! That is more than a landslide.

Belmonte defeated Mathay in all precincts, all barangays, all districts and in all Quezon City. There was not one tiny spot where Mathay posed a serious challenge.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136322 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 248928 [Title] => Comelec decides today row over 3-term mayor [Summary] => UNANIMOUS DECISION: Good news for the patient people of Mabalacat, Pampanga!

The Commission on Elections is set to announce today its decision on three petitions to disqualify three-term Mayor Marino "Boking" Morales from running for a fourth term on Monday.

Presiding Commissioner Mehol K. Sadain of the Comelec’s 2nd Division has scheduled the promulgation at 10 a.m. today. With him in what sources said is a unanimous decision are commissioners Florentino A. Tuason Jr. and Manuel A. Barcelona.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136322 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 247540 [Title] => The STAR, ABS-CBN team up for ‘Halalan 2004’ [Summary] => ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. links up with The Philippine STAR for a round-the-clock news and information update in the upcoming election dubbed Halalan 2004. The marathon coverage will begin on May 9, with the launch of the Sunday edition of TV Patrol and ends on May 11.

Correspondents from the network and The STAR will work side by side for a joint coverage of the candidates’ campaign trail, election day, the counting of the votes, and through the declaration of the country’s new President.
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 227725 [Title] => Can Comelec safeguard integrity of 2004 polls? [Summary] => WAIT FOR 2004: It is obvious that the objective of those unruly marches in Makati yesterday was to pressure President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to resign. (She won’t.)

Why disturb the peace to force a quick turnover when the May 2004 elections are just six short months away? If the opposition wants to change the sitting President, the best way to do this is to field candidates who can do better than the incumbent.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136322 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 226866 [Title] => Only politicians win in ‘win-win’ solution [Summary] => TAMA NA!: Many people feel their blood pressure soaring and some start vomiting when politicians talk of their working out "covenants" and "win-win" solutions to problems that they themselves had created.

Tama na yang
"win-win" at "covenant-covenant" ninyo, hoy!

"Win-win" merely means that the politicians will all come out winners and the people losers. Similarly, the vaunted "covenant" is the offspring of compromise born after principles are tossed out for expediency. [DatePublished] => 2003-11-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136322 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 226615 [Title] => Why is Abalos insisting on P300-M quick count? [Summary] => STRANGE BEHAVIOR: There’s something strange going on in the Commission on Elections. Or in the minds of Comelec chairman Ben Abalos and his fellow commissioners.

We could have had a Citizens’ Quick Count done by professionals at no cost to the government, but Abalos et al. want to conduct their own Comelec Quick Count for the May 2004 elections at a cost of P300 million.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136322 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 86474 [Title] => STAR, ABS-CBN team up for biggest poll coverage [Summary] =>
This is what The Philippine STAR and broadcast giant ABS-CBN promise to deliver as they embark on a multimedia coverage of tomorrow’s elections dubbed "Halalan 2001."

The coverage is described as the biggest and most trustworthy in the country’s history, combining the expertise in news gathering and the resources of The Philippine STAR and ABS-CBN.
[DatePublished] => 2001-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204093 [AuthorName] => by Tammy Mendoza [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 90677 [Title] => STAR, ABS-CBN team up for biggest poll coverage [Summary] => News coverage at its best and finest.

This is what The Philippine STAR and broadcast giant ABS-CBN promise to deliver as they embark on a multimedia coverage of tomorrow’s elections dubbed "Halalan 2001."

The coverage is described as the biggest and most trustworthy in the country’s history, combining the expertise in news gathering and the resources of The Philippine STAR and ABS-CBN.
[DatePublished] => 2001-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204093 [AuthorName] => by Tammy Mendoza [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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