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You can’t cure stupid

February 1, 2024

In the 1960s, when I served as a young army captain in Vietnam, I had a friend in my unit whose favorite phrase when encountering bureaucratic intransigence would remark, ‘they’re too stupid to know they’re stupid,’ to describe people who ‘followed the regulations’ even when the regulations clearly didn’t work. He would throw up his hands when faced with an obstreperous clerk or sergeant and finally throw in the towel and say, “You can’t cure stupid.”

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Zero-waste initiatives

February 1, 2024

Joseph Edward “Jed” Alegado, MA, MPM, Silliman University visiting researcher and a Ph.D. candidate in the Resource, Environment and Development Group at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University (ANU), stressed the importance of finding imperatives for a zero-waste future through community cases of zero-waste initiatives instead of waste-to-energy solutions (e.g., pyrolysis machines) in his lecture at the Dr. Mariano and Lina Lao Hall on January 24.

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Doctors’ Hospital to serve BacCHP beneficiaries Feb. 15; 31K cards issued

February 1, 2024

About 31,000 Bacolod City Comprehensive Health Program (BacCHP) cards have been issued by the city government to indigent Bacolodnons since March last year, and 1,314 beneficiaries served in five partner-hospitals from May 1 to Jan. 28 this year.

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595 soldiers promoted in Western, Central Visayas

February 1, 2024

A total of 595 enlisted personnel of the Philippine Army’s 3rd Infantry Division (ID) in Western and Central Visayas have been promoted to the next higher ranks.

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Opposition to PI continues amid order to stop signature campaign

February 1, 2024

The campaign to withdraw signatures from the people’s initiative (PI) will continue amid orders of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to indefinitely suspend the acceptance of signature sheets in connection to the move to amend the 1987 Constitution.

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12 vying for Diwata sang Bago

February 1, 2024

Twelve ladies will show what they’ve got in the search for the Diwata sang Bago 2024: The Festival Queen, with the grand pageant set on Feb. 16, the city said Wednesday.

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28th Panaad sa Negros set April 15-21

February 1, 2024

The 28th Panaad sa Negros Festival is slated April 15 to 21 this year.

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1st Bongbong’s Piaya Festival slated in Bacolod Feb. 8-11

February 1, 2024

The Sangguniang Panlungsod has referred to the Office of Mayor Alfredo Benitez for appropriate action Jan. 31 a request to hold the 1st Bongbong’s Piaya Festival from Feb. 8-11, as it noted that the event will be held at the public parking area along the BAYS Center and Pasalubong Center at San Juan Street in Bacolod City.

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