The taxi smelled faintly of gasoline and menthol candy, the kind drivers chew to stay awake past lunch. It was a Sunday, quiet enough for conversation...
Cities survive floods, elections, and brownouts, yet sometimes the loudest debates are about parking. That tension surfaced in Iloilo when talk of reg...
There are government programs that look good in press releases and disappear the moment the camera leaves. The Doctors to the Barrios program is not o...
There was a time when a one-peso fuel hike could already send transport and progressive groups to the streets—whistles, placards, radio voices full of...
Word has been going around downtown, and this time the whispers are true. Roberto’s is finally expanding. After weeks of speculation about who would t...
A public commendation should have been the easy part. An Ilongga, now Iloilo City vice mayor, wins election as national chair of the National Movement...
A student once told me, half-laughing and half-serious, that prom now feels like “Met Gala meets anime convention meets class reunion with soft launch...
Sometimes the best way to notice change in a society is to watch how people react to a joke. Not the joke itself, but the pause that follows. Laughter...
Fans of the John Wick films will remember a recurring phrase: “a seat at the table.” In that fictional underworld, the High Table is where power sits....