MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/22 January) — Bukidnon Governor Jose Ma. R. Zubiri, Jr. is endorsing a candidate for the congressional seat in Bukidnon's first district but it is not former Elections commissioner Virgilio Garcillano.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 January) – The harvest for 2006 wasn’t as bountiful as the previous years’ for books about Mindanao or written by Mindanawons, but 2006 was the year a Mindanawon author won the National Book Award for History.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 January) — Remember Jack Nicholson's rant as the script churned out the denouement to the court martial proceedings on A Few Good Men, that film where the legend shared billing with upstarts Tom Cruise, Kevin Bacon, and Demi Moore? I wish my friend Elcid Ablang were around to run that rousing monologue by me again.
PIKIT, North Cotabato (MindaNews/22 January) — I answered my cell phone. It was New Year and I thought it was a call from my niece or brother from abroad. But the moment I heard the familiar voice from the other end, I knew it was not from anyone of them. It came from Normina.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/22 January) — Efforts to get the local Catholic Church to support the huge mining venture in Tampakan, South Cotabato have proved futile as calls to stop the project were repeatedly aired instead.
