“A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.” – Arthur Bloch IF the flood control project anomalies were not uncovered, no high-ranking official from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) would schedule a visit to inspect the Aganan Flyover in Pavia, Iloilo, a parallel project
January 20, 2026
“I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor until I was with you, and I realized: you don’t realize you’re on the floor.” – David Levithan A FORMER physical education (P.E.) teacher, stricken with a life-threatening disease from Cagayan de Oro City in the Philippines, has only one
January 19, 2026
“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.” – John Lennon When Amparo Trias landed in the United States via Los Angeles, California sometime in 1990, she knew flying back again to the “land of milk and honey” – if ever she decided to return to the Philippines–would be
January 17, 2026
“We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.” – Rebecca Pidgeon THE news that a billionaire, who badly needs a haircut, has sued a young politician, who needs a hairstyle, for cyber libel, is a distraction amid the myriads of
January 16, 2026
“To me, protesting and playing music go hand in hand.” – Tim Commerford IN a hilarious coincidence, I received a letter from the 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East dues supervisor Jacqueline Leung dated January 6, 2026 returning the check I sent dated December 8, 2025 to the the largest healthcare workers’
January 15, 2026
“Harass me and you will probably end up on social media.” – Steven Magee WE first heard about Evangeline Lourdes “Luli” Arroyo-Bernas when she filed a sexual harassment case against now retired diplomat Jose Ampeso in 1996, one year after Luli’s mother, former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, was reelected as senator. The
January 14, 2026
“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. WHILE many of his contemporaries in political infamy are already into the dustbin of oblivion, Ronaldo “Ronnie” Puno is surprisingly still very much active today in national politics. Now 77, Puno serves
January 13, 2026
“You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought.” – John Greenleaf Whittier AS we have predicted before the year 2025 ended, the bad, ugly, evil will win over the Marcos Jr. administration after the latter failed to deliver its promise to jail the former before Christmas
January 12, 2026
“Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.” – David Deutsch THE uproar on gun ban and signal jamming during the Dinagyang Festival on January 24-25, 2026 shouldn’t confuse any Tom, Dick and Harry. In fact, it shouldn’t be an issue anymore
January 10, 2026
“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that’s a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.” – Rob Reiner WE shouldn’t condemn people who continue to look up to former President Rodrigo
January 9, 2026
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” – Henry Ford MANY Filipinos think the biggest economic shocker when we entered the year 2026 was not the reported
January 8, 2026
“You can’t pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.” – Scott Howard Phillips IT has been 36 years since our colleague, former News Express editor Teopisto “Pet” Melliza, escaped from would-be abductors by the skin
January 7, 2026