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Bam urges governmentt officials: Go down to the people

Senator Bam Aquino on Wednesday challenged the government’s financial managers to personally go down to the people and listen totheir pleas on the high...

No credible opposition leader

We have a national tragedy. This is supposed to be a functioning democracy and yet we do not have a credible leader of...

What is absent in the PRESENT bill?

Is social entrepreneurship the answer to poverty in our country? Certain sectors of Philippine society seem to think so. Not surprisingly, there are pending...

‘Don’t hostage free college education’

Senator Bam Aquino on Friday urged the government not to hold free college education hostage, because government can afford free tuition even without the...

TRAIN as TREN

TRAIN—Tax Reform for Acceleration and InclusioN—is the most significant and far-reaching tax reform and legislation under the administration of President Duterte. This early though, some...

Resistant to what?

In our article in this space last May 16 entitled “Forming an opposition slate,” we wrote about the personalities being considered for the...

Forming an opposition slate

With the barangay elections over and done with, focus on the political front will now shift to the forthcoming 2019 elections, which will...

Senators hit non-implementation of TRAIN subsidy

Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Monday scored government representatives for their failure to fully implement the unconditional cash transfer program intended to shield low-income Filipinos...

Solon backs calls for price control

A party-list lawmaker on Monday backed the clamor for a government price control on basic goods and services to mitigate the impact of the...

The right of the state

Santa Banana, believe it or not, even though I am 90 years old I still look forward to reading the funny pages of newspapers....

Afraid of an aged nun

After some weeks of posturing and threatening, the Duterte administration has decided to deport Roman Catholic nun Patricia Anne Fox for participating in “partisan...

Senate hopefuls

The Pulse Asia survey on “senatoriables”—field research of which was done from March 23 to 27—has the following names in the top 20:  Grace...

Tax reform review eyed

Senator Bam Aquino has  called on his colleagues in the Senate to revisit  the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Act as Filipinos deal with high...

Sebastian

What a difference a (Holy) Week can make. Early last week, the Bangko Sentral reported that consumer confidence in the first quarter had dived to...
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