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Recent articles by Ben Contreras Anyone but Bambi’s father Ben Contreras2012-05-15 16:00 APPARENTLY, Rep. Bambi Emano has not reached the stature of... Read More >> Fire traps in the city Ben Contreras2012-05-14 16:00 IT is not farfetched that the tragedy in Butuan would... Read More >> Many poverty factors Ben Contreras2012-05-13 16:00 MY second encounter with those selling mattresses made of dried... Read More >> What’s with the traffic lights?Ben Contreras2012-05-10 16:00 FRIEND I haven't met for quite a long time asked... Read More >> Easy money Ben Contreras2012-05-09 16:00 HOW do you hide a "donation" like a car? One... Read More >> Some officials are super-rich Ben Contreras2012-05-07 16:00 I SEE to it that I delete irrelevant messages in... Read More >> Pockets first?Ben Contreras2012-05-06 16:00 IT didn't occur to me that "patriotism" and "nationalism" have... Read More >> Reservoir of political appointees Ben Contreras2012-05-03 16:00 MY desire to know more about the agrarian reform program... Read More >> Potential menace Ben Contreras2012-05-02 16:00 A READER sent text message: "White Montero with plate number... Read More >> Wonderful people Ben Contreras2012-05-01 16:00 IT was Dec. 10, 2011. Several groups of professionals and... Read More >> Destiny will make a way Ben Contreras2012-04-29 16:00 SOMETIMES, an urgent matter comes second to a loftier political... Read More >> Enough with doleouts Ben Contreras2012-04-27 16:00 ANY potential problem should be nipped in the bud before... Read More >> Cooler heads may work wonders Ben Contreras2012-04-23 16:00 NOTHING is permanent because change is constant. The better we... Read More >> Why is Cagayan de Oro not in the yuppy map?Ben Contreras2012-04-22 16:00 EMIL Deo Pulido Abear shares an article by Ms. Tessa... Read More >> Not impossible Ben Contreras2012-04-18 16:00 A GROUP of motorela drivers and operators meets once a... Read More >> It’s like asking for the moon Ben Contreras2012-04-17 16:00 A COMELEC en banc resolution promulgated last Jan. 24 found... Read More >> Life’s inevitables Ben Contreras2012-04-11 16:00 THE Chinese would say that if you are earning well,... Read More >> The ups and downs of writing Ben Contreras2012-04-10 16:00 WRITING is a medium for expression. When there is something... Read More >> Of the so-called elitists and populists Ben Contreras2012-04-09 16:00 I LIKE Bency Ellorin's column last April 3. Reader Arthur... Read More >> The smell of election day Ben Contreras2012-04-04 16:00 A READER told me of the emergence of another daily... Read More >> Silent water runs deep Ben Contreras2012-04-03 16:00 GREAT comebacks by great people! Winston Churchill vs. Lady Astor:... Read More >> It’s time to relax and energize Ben Contreras2012-04-02 16:00 PAGASA's forecast is that it's going to be a wet... Read More >> Congrats XU College of Law but...Ben Contreras2012-03-29 16:00 A CONCERNED Cagayanon e-mailed this: "There is a news story... Read More >> Enter the Craft with one sole mission Ben Contreras2012-03-27 16:00 HIS was just one of those text messages I get... Read More >> Road safety and traffic education Ben Contreras2012-03-26 16:00 THE Cagayan de Oro Campaigners for Road Courtesy and Discipline... Read More >> Visionary what?Ben Contreras2012-03-25 16:00 WHAT'S wrong in calling for the administration to account for... Read More >> Indefensible Ben Contreras2012-03-22 16:00 WHEN one is not transparent in his dealings, he lies.... Read More >> Binaboy Ben Contreras2012-03-20 16:00 FROM a reader: "I was reading one of the best... Read More >> Need for change Ben Contreras2012-03-19 16:00 HERE'S an article e-mailed to me. I feel I should... Read More >> Whatever happened to truth in advertising?Ben Contreras2012-03-18 16:00 I AM not a member of the Save CDO Now... Read More >> What’s next?Ben Contreras2012-03-15 16:00 RECENT developments, if true, would seem to point to a... Read More >> Know the causes first Ben Contreras2012-03-14 16:00 GOLD Star Daily's March 12 issue carried the story with... Read More >> The problem with lack of transparency Ben Contreras2012-03-12 16:00 PERHAPS, it's not just about security of employment but also... Read More >> On being ‘leftist’Ben Contreras2012-03-11 16:00 I CAN'T remember when it all started. It must have... Read More >> Justice at last!Ben Contreras2012-03-05 16:00 I WAS furnished a copy of the decision of the... Read More >> Who made money?Ben Contreras2012-03-04 16:00 THE way our city officials defended the hydraulic mining in... Read More >> An insult to INC and its flock Ben Contreras2012-03-01 16:00 A MEMBER of Save CDO has this sad experience. The... Read More >> Where are the warm bodies?Ben Contreras2012-02-28 16:00 ANG mga Kagay-anon, dali ra mu-init, dali ra sab mabugnaw.... Read More >> Outmaneuvered Ben Contreras2012-02-26 16:00 THOSE behind the recall movement may have to agree with... Read More >> Diversionary tactic?Ben Contreras2012-02-24 16:00 "COUNCILORS slam COWD rate hike." This story was bannered by... Read More >> What about the erring Travelers?Ben Contreras2012-02-23 16:00 WHO'S afraid of Save CDO Now? Certainly, not the "lord."... Read More >> He’s beyond reproach; he commits no mistake Ben Contreras2012-02-22 16:00 I DON'T know what to make of it. I just... Read More >> Where have all the beaches gone?Ben Contreras2012-02-21 16:00 THIS should have come earlier than my tirade on the... Read More >> Tax boycott?Ben Contreras2012-02-20 16:00 IT was only 4 pm when I parked my car... Read More >> Who are you protecting?Ben Contreras2012-02-19 16:00 THE city council's committee on environment has maintained that it... Read More >> Love at first sight?Ben Contreras2012-02-15 16:00 I RESPECT the supremacy of the highest court although I... Read More >> Many ways to skin a cat Ben Contreras2012-02-14 16:00 THERE are many ways to skin a cat, so they... Read More >> I knew something was cooking Ben Contreras2012-02-12 16:00 THIS may be an oft repeated story but it is... Read More >> He just wouldn’t listen Ben Contreras2012-02-09 16:00 READER Raul Padua writes: "I met an old friend yesterday,... Read More >> I had a dream Ben Contreras2012-02-08 16:00 LAST night, I had a dream. City hall was on... Read More >> Neutral?Ben Contreras2012-02-07 16:00 "If you are neutral in situation of injustice, you have... Read More >> Let us all be heard Ben Contreras2012-02-05 16:00 I AM appalled at the pictures showing the destruction of... Read More >> Conscience clear like Cala-cala Ben Contreras2012-02-03 16:00 HERE'S another letter from Mr. Raul B. Padua of Cagayan... Read More >> He’s no longer in control Ben Contreras2012-02-02 16:00 A READER sent me this message: "About the P200 million... Read More >> Let’s stop the corruption Ben Contreras2012-01-30 16:00 THE inticracies of the issues surrounding the power industry in... Read More >> No sting, just a warning Ben Contreras2012-01-29 16:00 WE were late for the blessing but not quite with... Read More >> Coward Ben Contreras2012-01-27 16:00 IT cause a heavy traffic that morning but it was... Read More >> Is there no brave Cagayanon out there?Ben Contreras2012-01-25 16:00 COUNCILOR Alvin Calingin's so-called support for the call to stop... Read More >> Environmental awareness Ben Contreras2012-01-23 16:00 SENDONG resulted in some sort of an unplanned information campaign.... Read More >> Blaming the ‘what’Ben Contreras2012-01-22 16:00 REP. Bambi Emano did the right thing as a son... Read More >> What an ego!Ben Contreras2012-01-18 16:00 "EMANO says he sent spies vs Save CDO," bannered The... Read More >> If...Ben Contreras2012-01-17 16:00 RAUL Padua, who is from Davao City, was appalled at... Read More >> The tourism hall was flooded, mayor Ben Contreras2012-01-11 16:00 I WAS checking in for a flight to Manila when... Read More >> What a waste of food!Ben Contreras2012-01-10 16:00 I WAS having dinner with friends at Steve's. Beside us,... Read More >> RTA’s inaction Ben Contreras2012-01-09 16:00 IF the Roads and Traffic Administration (RTA) is not going... Read More >> Simple and kind gesture Ben Contreras2012-01-06 16:00 I WAS at the airport in the afternoon Jan. 3... Read More >> No planning Ben Contreras2012-01-02 16:00 I NEED to unload some unprinted text messages from the... Read More >> A question of attitude Ben Contreras2011-12-27 16:00 THIS was e-mailed to me more than a year ago.... Read More >> Law of nature Ben Contreras2011-12-22 16:00 SANDY Rijskamp is from The NetherLands. "Nether" means "situated down... Read More >> ‘Midnight appointment’ or not?Ben Contreras2011-12-15 16:00 THE impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona has come... Read More >> Check your kitchen!Ben Contreras2011-12-11 16:00 IT was not my intention to watch that channel one... Read More >> Spate of crimes and our cops Ben Contreras2011-12-08 16:00 THE spate of crimes in the city is putting the... Read More >> What state of the art?Ben Contreras2011-12-04 16:00 AN angry reader sent this: "It's a shameful sight at... Read More >> Land for the landless Ben Contreras2011-12-01 16:00 I HAVE no beef with the government giving Land to... Read More >> The heat is on Ben Contreras2011-11-28 16:00 I HAVE always likened the "piso-piso program" to the first... Read More >> Less corruption means well-spent taxes Ben Contreras2011-11-24 16:00 IT'S over 700 days and still counting. Justice seems elusive... Read More >> ‘Karma’ is written all over Gloria’s face Ben Contreras2011-11-22 16:00 IF you are sympathetic to Gloria, pro-Gloria and have compassion... Read More >> Giving credit to where credit is due Ben Contreras2011-11-21 16:00 WE got Mr. Arthur Cheeseman's latest e-mail to me through... Read More >> In my dreams Ben Contreras2011-11-14 16:00 Go (also an expert in arnis) asked me if I... Read More >> Vegafria is right and wrong Ben Contreras2011-11-13 16:00 "When are we going to wake up?"--Rowena Lactao Will ROWENA... Read More >> Dexter is doing good Ben Contreras2011-11-09 16:00 MODERN structures, high-rise buildings, fancy hotels and restaurants--they now dominate... Read More >> A foreigner talks about our traffic woes Ben Contreras2011-11-08 16:00 HERE'S something sent to me by a foreigner named Sandy... Read More >> Unreasonable and shameless use of public funds Ben Contreras2011-11-06 16:00 REP. Maximo Rodriguez Jr. and his brother Cagayan de Oro... Read More >> ‘Three Musketeers’Ben Contreras2011-11-03 16:00 HERE'S something from a reader: "I finally tried the CM... Read More >> Who’s money is it in the first place?Ben Contreras2011-10-30 16:00 THIS is seen prin ted on a T-shirt: "I am 20... Read More >> Needed: Character change Ben Contreras2011-10-27 16:00 BRO. Cesar Lapid is a retired banker from the Rizal... Read More >> Just a matter of time Ben Contreras2011-10-26 16:00 FROM readers: "After reading your article in today's paper regarding... Read More >> Oro traffic woes Ben Contreras2011-10-25 16:00 IF you allow a wrongdoing to become a bad habit,... Read More >> My prayer Ben Contreras2011-10-23 16:00 LIKE "Solomon Espinas" (fictitious) who wrote the letters to please... Read More >> Why underpasses?Ben Contreras2011-10-22 16:00 I AM averse to the idea of constructing underpasses in... Read More >> Will the flyovers solve the traffic problem?Ben Contreras2011-10-19 16:00 THE Recto-Velex flyover is now open. Congratulations to the city... Read More >> Are the contractors willing to be transparent?Ben Contreras2011-10-16 16:00 SO the people may know!A "Purchase Request" dated Jan. 14,... Read More >> My groups Ben Contreras2011-10-12 00:44 A Leadership training seminar with the theme "Unity paves ways... Read More >> Contract or no contract?Ben Contreras2011-10-09 16:00 I HATE the word "playmate." But the guy is lucky... Read More >> They can’t even follow simple rules Ben Contreras2011-10-03 16:00 THE new regional police director, Chief Supt. Jufel Adriatico, may... Read More >> On Boniao, sex tours and the deadline Ben Contreras2011-10-02 16:00 WAS it really a case of "kidnap for ransom"... Read More >> Inevitable increase in water rates Ben Contreras2011-09-29 16:00 AN act of kindness is always remembered, not necessarily forever... Read More >> Eye for an eye?Ben Contreras2011-09-28 16:00 ALL'S well that ends well, so the saying goes. Right?... Read More >> Are our cars safe?Ben Contreras2011-09-26 16:00 A week before the opening of the Puerto flyover to... Read More >> City hall has a responsibility, too Ben Contreras2011-09-24 16:00 THE abduction of businessman Manny Boniao has elicited various reactions... Read More >>

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