Waldo Carpio goes to DA

Manang Imee broached Bongbong Marcos as vice president during apo MCoy’ 100 birth year bash in Batac City. Malapit na, Gov said in jest. Well, Veep Leni Robredo is sensitive to such bad joke.
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Congressman Rudy Fariñas (first district, Ilocos Norte) marked his 66th birthday in Manila with President Duterte, 72, as a special guest. Like it or not, we’re not all getting younger. As long as our mind doesn’t age. Doc tells us to keep it sharp and sound.
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Closeness to the corridor of power catapulted erstwhile senior town councilor of Paoay, Ilocos Norte Waldo Carpio to the DA. He was named by Prez DU30 on Sept. 4 as assistant secretary of the Department of Agriculture after he served as PAGCOR consultant. We, his province mates, expect him to help spur economic growth for our marginalized farmers in Ilocos Norte. Waldo is the younger brother of Prez DU30’s son-in-law Atty. Manases Carpio, husband of Davao City Mayor Sarah Duterte-Carpio and nephew of Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales. My college days buddy Victorino “Turing” Carpio, former Paoay municipal administrator, is also Waldo’s uncle.
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Seldom to see a mayor and his vice mayor in good working ties. In the upland town of Solsona, Ilocos Norte, Mayor Alex Calucag, and VM Joseph de Lara are literally playing cat and dog in running their turf.
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At 83, Currimao Mayor Rosario Go got her final Go Signal to return to the embrace of the Lord. She was earlier hospitalized in Manila for illness. She served for many years as Currimao chief executive after the death of her husband mayor Ernesto and later, the late son mayor Wilbur.
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DAR chief Paeng Mariano’s ad interim appointment was rejected by the powerful Commission on Appointment. Earlier axed were Perfecto Rasay (DFA), Gina Lopez (DENR), and Judy Taguiwalo (DSWD). Prez DU30 was perceived off-hand in the CA axing spree versus his appointees.
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What if communist country North Korea attacks the Philippines? God forbid it will never happen. I remember my uncle Pfc. Sergio Pobre Guiang who died in the bloody 1950 Korean War. His memorabilia, a Purple Heart posthumous award issued by then US President Harry Truman, speaks of my uncle’s heroism who perished in the front line with his boots on, so to speak.#