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Goodbye Baguio Convention Center

lisa — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:08:47 +0000

“Have you seen Baguio lately?” This was a question one of my UP Law classmates asked another friend of ours at Gilbert Teodoro’s birthday bash at The Fort last Saturday night (yup, the Department of National Defense Secretary and I were blockmates in law school — and even then we knew he was planning to run [...]

NLEX and SCTEX: Get to Baguio Faster

lisa — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:01:09 +0000

The Saga of the Baguio City Market

lisa — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:56:29 +0000

In my early trips to Baguio in the late 60’s and early 70s, I was too young to be brought to the Baguio City Market by my mom. The first time I started going was as a teenager in the late 70s and early 80s and, by that time, the Stone Building had been replaced [...]

Online Petitions for Baguio

lisa — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:33:15 +0000

Never again! All Filipinos, especially Baguio residents, should never allow anyone, for the sake of ‘development’ to tear down beautiful structures like the Camp John Hay Main Club. The same goes for decades-old pine trees. Almost 1000 are in danger — GSIS lot (500 trees), Moog Controls Corporation expansion (234 trees), Ayala development plus new [...]

10 Little Things We Can Do to Help Baguio Be Beautiful Again

lisa — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:50:50 +0000

University of Baguio (UB) Fire

lisa — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:48:17 +0000

February 16, 2008 started as a perfect Saturday — clear skies, the classic northern chill in the air. Then suddenly the lights went off at about 11:30, almost simultaneously with the all-too-familiar wild wailing of fire trucks. Suddenly, all of us at home receive text messages: UB (University of Baguio) is burning! UB is on fire! My [...]

Burnham Park: Then And Now

lisa — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:30:02 +0000

Baguio’s Burnham Park: Then and Now by Jonathan Best Today, Burnham Park is facing severe challenges from commercial developers, ill-conceived municipal projects and poor maintenance. When American architect Daniel Burnham first drew up his city plan for Baguio in 1904, he saved the very best piece of real estate for a public park. His thinking reflected the [...]

The Korean Impact on Baguio

lisa — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:01:14 +0000

Baguio City has never been a stranger to foreign nationals visiting and living here. In fact, it was “Little America,” a mining and recreation town built by the Americans in the early 20th century in the Philippines’ Cordillera mountain range. It was only after the 1990 earthquake and US Bases turnover in 1991 that Baguio [...]