The Next House Speaker Will Be Crucial in the Post Aquino Era
The results of the 2019 Philippine mid-term elections could very well be ushering in the start of the post Aquino era which some say was largely defined by an almost …
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Porac Quake Raises Concern Over “Substandard” Steel
When the floor of my home/office in Quezon city vibrated and then swirled around a bit early this week, I didn’t panic at all because I trusted the design, engineering, …
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Will Leyte 1st District representative Martin Romualdez Be The Next House Speaker?
Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio’s influence on national politics appears to be continuously ramping up, not only because her statements reverberate throughout Philippine social media but also because whatever she …
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Is Senator Lacson’s Lump Sum Budgeting The Return of Pork Barrel?
Senator Panfilo Lacson is quite the devious politician. First he holds up the passage of the 2019 National budget for months and then proposes the passage of a version of …
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Is Former Congressman Bem Noel the Personification of Buraot?
To a friend reading news items about Bem Noel, who had once figured prominently during the start of Grace Poe’s presidential candidacy in 2016, it would seem like a fair …
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Fighting the Tyrannical and Corrupt Regime of Ormoc City Mayor Richard Goma Gomez
People in Ormoc City literally cannot complain about their Mayor Richard Goma Gomez. Unlike here in Metro Manila where citizens can freely criticize and even lambast our public officials, Mayor …
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Panelo Should Stop Lawyering For Diokno
A friend observing Presidential Spokesman Sal Panelo says that his defense of Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno is making it seem that the administration no longer recognizes the principle of checks …
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Ormoc City Mayor Richard “Goma” Gomez’ Perilous Lack of Good Governance Know-How
Ormoc City Mayor Richard “Goma” Gomez sure didn’t waste time exposing his inability to provide good governance to the people who elected him in 2016. A paper from the United …
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