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  BY JULLIE Y. DAZA     “NO one is safe unless everyone is safe.” A mantra that should be...

  BY JULLIE Y. DAZA     “IF you get vaccinated with a dose that’s 50 percent effec­tive, it means...

  BY JULLIE Y. DAZA     Corruption in places high and low. The Department of Justice is conducting a...

  BY JULLIE Y. DAZA     What about us working stiffs in the private sector? Medical and hospital front­liners,...

  BY JULLIE Y. DAZA     In another 41 days there will be another New Year to celebrate. Yes,...

  BY JULLIE Y. DAZA   Why did the second day of Christmas, Saturday, emit a Black Saturday vibe? The...

  BY JULLIE Y. DAZA     It’s the day after Christmas but I beg the reader’s indulgence, for I will...

  BY JULLIE Y. DAZA     When it comes to giving gifts, we are proud to err on the...

  BY JULLIE Y. DAZA     The next pandemic is knocking at our stomachs. Hunger. While those of us...

  BY JULLIE Y. DAZA     OR, as former colleagues in TV used to say, “in the time of...

  BY JULLIE Y. DAZA   Months before the pandemic shut down our social lives, the loudest whisper was about...

  BY JULLIE Y. DAZA     If the Toll Regulatory Board’s RFID system – cashless but equally brainless –...

  BY JULLIE Y. DAZA     On his 96th birthday last Thursday, novelist, essayist, social critic and commentator, bookstore...

  BY JULLIE Y. DAZA     Pandemic, word of the world in 2020. Following close behind at second spot...

  BY JULLIE Y. DAZA   Christmas is bustin’ out all over, but nowhere as robustly as the malls have...

  BY JULLIE Y. DAZA     THEM were the days. And nights that lasted until the dawn. To Ado...