Naga City has become the current darling of progressive local governance not because it suddenly discovered reform, but because it has managed to make...
There is something oddly memorable about a political acronym that seems to forget part of what it promises. Reform Alliance for Good Governance and Ac...
“I feel incompetent to perform duties which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.” – Andrew Johnson Joseph “Erap” Estrada was the first classic ex...
By Herbert Vego WHO is lying? Vice President Sara Duterte, or Ramil Madriaga? This is the only question that this column will comment on. “I don’t kno...
THAT’S the responsorial psalm of the Mass of the 3rd Sunday of Easter, Year A. It’s taken from Psalm 16,11. It’s again another reassurance from God th...
The trouble with the Boracay Bridge is no longer just the bridge. It is what the process is starting to reveal about how the government treats local c...
A localized clearing operation involving ambulant vendors – “bolanteros”- in Iloilo City has quickly grown into a much larger issue. What began ...
“It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.” —Yogi Berra UNLIKE in the Philippines where it is exceptionally hot due to its tropical, equatorial location, ...
I have never attended any of Leoncio P. Deriada’s workshops on writing and poetry. Suffice it to say that during the recently concluded creative writi...
