Citrasco hailed

Mayor Mike Rama wants all "rolling coffins" banned from the streets. They should be allowed to run only in memorial parks?

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It says here that PNoy's one-day Japan trip costs P8.8 million. "What's P8.8 million if we think of the billions going to pork barrel corruption?" asks Noy Temiong.

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Sen. Jinggoy looked forlorn--some say he was teary-eyed-- as he was waiting for the police to bring him to the detention facility in Camp Crame. He finally surrendered to Mayor Erap, his dad.

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There comes a moment in your life when sometimes you're up and at other times you're down. Erap calls this the principle of "weather-weather lang."

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Citrasco, the transport coop, is being hailed as a hero of sorts for deciding to withdraw its P2.50 fare hike petition. "It's not everyday we hear of transport people doing something other than welga or jeepney strike," says Nanding T, a poultry products trader.

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Adds Nanding T. "Other business sectors who can't control the urge to raise prices citing the current hard times should look at Citrasco."

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Erring passenger buses in Metro Manila face P1 million penalty if confirmed to be colorum. Some operators complain the amount of fine is too much. "To get rid of complaints against the P1-M fine, why not just ban colorums from operation, saving the griping operators from the stiff penalty?" suggested one observer.

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"This way," the observer added," it will lessen the traffic jam, which the MMDA has been trying hard to solve." It will also deprive kotong cops of a rich source of kotong.

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After having saved the best for last, I say: "Thank you, sir Dodong; thank you, sir Miguel, for remembering."

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OVERHEARD. Movie superstar Nora Aunor has been stricken out of the list of National Artist nominees. Many are wondering why. A showbiz observer in Manila has been quoted as saying: "Maybe it's because Nora Aunor looks like GMA." A Cebuano movie fan says: "Binuang nang rasona...Pero OK na lang. Wa may laing ha-om nga rason."