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City sued for 108% tax hike

Who says you cannot fight City Hall.

This time-honored dictum will be tested once again if indeed there's a ring of truth to it as city residents are treated to the spectacle of a class suit where five big landowners called the attention of the courts to stop City Hall from collecting what they termed as "grossly excessive and extortionate" rise of real property taxes to the tune of 108 percent.
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IS IT BECAUSE BOHOLANOS are famous or notorious?

Living or dead, the province of Bohol has its own share of famous personalities. If one cannot argue against success, then the title of the most famous Boholano went to former President Carlos P. Garcia, fourth chief executive of the Philippine republic.
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JAGNA-Finding landslide debris susceptible to remobilization, Japanese experts from Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT) who conducted a two-day on-site risk re-evaluation on the Mayana landslide proposed to design mitigation measures particularly at the confluence where the major Mayana and Bangwalog river tributaries converge, forming the Alejawan River.

Three Japanese geo-technical engineers and professors from TIT in Tokyo, Japan were here on March 7 and 8 to conduct an on-site risk re-evaluation on the Mayana landslide.
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EDITORIAL
Premature rejoicing

Today, Christendom commemorates what has since been known as Palm Sunday. It recalls the event when Jerusalem laid out a hero's welcome for Jesus Christ as people spread out their clothes and waved palm fronds hence the name.

Palm Sunday was a day of rejoicing. There is no other way to see it as people came out of their homes, shouting hosannas and glorifying God in a spontaneous expression of joy and devotion to God.
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