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Panagbenga 2008: Feb 25 A Special Non-Working Holiday

Great news for all those coming up to watch the Panagbenga 2008 Parades to be held on Feb 23 and 24!

You do not have to rush back to work on Sunday, February 24 because, unlike last year, Gloria Arroyo has declared this February 25 a non-working holiday, changing her mind from a previous pronouncement that it was to be a special working holiday.

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GMA Cancels Trip to Baguio

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Uh-oh! Now it’s an uncovered plot to assassinate GMA on the occasion of the PMA Alumni Homecoming in Baguio — by Muslims, too. How convenient! Can you believe this? She will cancel a trip that will put her in the midst of all her generals, the ‘best protectors’ of our country, and in high security FORT Del Pilar, no less!

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Bautista Asked 6M From PTA for Burnham Parking Building

Hot! Hot! Hot!

Councilor Sembrano opposes Mayor’s move to build parking building on Burnham Park, saying that it is doomed to go the way of Mines View Park, that it will affect vendors in the market and in the malls.

In a news article here, it seems that Mayor Peter Rey Bautista wrote PTA Chairman Robert Dean Barbers asking for 6M subsidy for his proposed parking building. Read More…

Bautista to Build More Flyovers in Baguio

This just in today. One of my guests alerted me to a report at the Philippine Daily Inquirer headlined:

MORE FLYOVERS SEEN IN BAGUIO CITY

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ALERT! P200 MILLION BUILDING TO BE ERECTED ON BURNHAM PARK

Nothing, not common sense, nor good intentions, nor love for Baguio, nor a sense of decency, nor good taste is going to stop the Baguio local government from pushing through with a multi-storey building on Burnham Park. Read More…