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The health of the conversations in our public sphere can be assessed using two concepts formulated by critical discourse analyst Norman Fairclough: regulative practice and spaces of emergence. Regulative practice, as I wrote last week, refers to…
According to the Philippine Institute of Development Studies, there is an alarming 57 percent dropout rate among junior public high school students. Among the reasons are lack of interest due to overcrowded classrooms that challenge the endurance…
New!” This is a three-letter word that always catches attention! Perhaps you are already wondering what is new in this article! We simply enjoy seeing, hearing and having new things! Opening gifts on Christmas, buying a new…
This rainy afternoon I think of keys. One cannot think of a better thing, no matter the weather, because always one faces doors, literal or otherwise. Daily life is somehow a series of entries. But I mean…
We can’t seem to move forward in upgrading our transport situation with the political and technical squabbles which hound the BRT and the LRT. This is frustrating, saddening and disappointing because a better transportation system would mean…
The government recently imposed a total ban on smoking in all public places. This national policy follows that city ordinance long implemented in Davao City, one of the strict measures that made then-mayor Rodrigo Duterte popular nationwide.…
July this year has been a reunion-filled month what with six reunions I attended. Five of these reunions were with my former students: two from St. Catherine’s School (Batches ’71 and ’72), three from UP Cebu High…
It is quite common for people to slow down when they catch their own reflections. One doesn’t seem to waste the opportunity, regardless of what reflecting medium they may be in front of, to check if his…
If necessity is the mother of invention, then poverty would be its father. The lack of resources forces people to find creative solutions to certain problems, to make do with whatever is available and to try to…
People go on pilgrimage to the holy places and miracle sites of their religion. To go on an inter-faith pilgrimage is a rarity and this was what Prof. Henry Francis Espiritu, philosophy teacher of UP Cebu did.…
A PROPOSED ordinance authorizing traffic enforcers in Cebu City to confiscate the driver’s license of motorists who violate traffic rules has been made to undergo more scrutiny. The Cebu City Council referred the proposal of Councilor Eugenio…
A proposed bill by Sen. Joel Villanueva to penalize those spreading fake news on social media and the web may already be covered under existing laws that, at the time they were crafted, had not yet even…
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