Hindi ako sang-ayon sa paggamit ni Claire Castro ng salitang “premature” sa pagpuna sa malaking budget increase para sa distritong kinakatawan ni Sandro Marcos. Tama siya na hindi automatic na pagnanakaw ang budget insertion. Hindi pa rin final ang proposed budget. Pero nang…
Read the commentary →I received an email from Ms. Lorna, 65 years old, retired, at taga-Angono, Rizal. Ang tanong niya, naghahanda na ba ang Asia para sa giyera? At kung magkaroon nga ng giyera, ano ang mga warning signs na dapat nating bantayan? Posible bang madamay ang Pilipinas?
Read storyA new Registry report has put victim applications back in focus ahead of Rodrigo Duterte’s trial at the International Criminal Court. The October 29 filing assesses 50 applications. It does not announce that 50 people have been admitted to the trial. For families seeking a place…
Read storyGood morning. New filings in Rodrigo Duterte’s International Criminal Court case concern victim participation and attendance at the next procedural hearing. In Quezon, maritime authorities have stopped a ferry from operating while they investigate an incident that injured three…
Read storyGood morning. New filings in Rodrigo Duterte’s International Criminal Court case concern victim participation and attendance at the next procedural hearing. In Quezon, maritime authorities have stopped a ferry from operating while they investigate an incident that injured three…
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There’s a budget insertion in your district, and you don’t know about it?
Someone told me in the comments, “Your guess is as good as mine.”
Read story ↗Does the budget follow need or political power?
A district should not have to elect the president’s son or cousin to get the roads, bridges and flood protection it needs. People pay taxes regardless of whom their congressman knows.
Read story ↗Philip Lustre and the cost of defending a post
Philip Lustre Jr. went to a media forum in Quezon City on Saturday, October 24. Shortly afterward, police arrested him on a cyberlibel warrant from a Davao City court. He said he did not even know someone had filed a criminal complaint against him.
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