The map below shows the latest results from a Forbes study, using IRS data, on where Americans moved from one county to another during the year 2008. I specifically picked Brookings, South Dakota and ...
The SDSU Wecota Hall basement janitor left me a note today saying, and I quote verbatim “If you have to dump your partially drank coffee in the waste basket…please wrap in these and save b...
What a bad moment for my beloved country, the Philippines. First we missed the World’s Friendliest Country list. Now, we placed 130th among 149 countries in the just-released Global Peace Index (GPI) ...
A TV host said that the Filipino ingenuity came out in the ongoing Philippine national election. Why? Being the first ever election to be automatedusing the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) election...
I was surprised to see a celebration of Flores de Mayo(Flowers of May) at the St. Thomas More Parish in Brookings, SD during the first Sunday of May. Little kids were bringing flowers to the image of ...
I am very critical when it comes to music. Blame it to my addiction to almost anything about the art. I am probably one of the few non-Americans who monitor and follow each American Idol episode, chec...
I could not believe my eyes to read in this week’s issue of the South Dakota State University (SDSU) Collegian newspaper that last week’s plagiarism incident was only considered a mere mis...
Three years of writing for the SDSU Collegian Newspaper is already an achievement for me as an amateur writer. But the sparkle each article brought to my eyes was not all-bright every time. The months...