Unspoken conspiracy between lawmakers and district engineers
WHAT IS becoming apparent in recent days is that local governments are generally left in the dark in the allocation of funds and implementation...
Are thinking voters giving up the fight?
PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. has created the Independent Commission for Infrastructure to uncover anomalous public works projects that were funded and implemented in the...
Quitting to evade lifestyle checks
THE ONGOING probe into flood control shenanigans has shaken the foundations of many institutions.
Case in point: Sen. Tito Sotto has wrested the Senate...
Richard Gomez, flood control, and doxxing
WITHOUT kickbacks would legislators be interested in the implementation of infrastructure projects?
A legislatorās principal function is precisely that ā to legislate, meaning to review...
Losing the fight against corruption
BEFORE PBBM could lament corruption in his State of the Nation Address, there had already been reports of P142.7 billion in ābicam insertionsā added...
Did Escudero violate the law?
SECTION 95 (c) of the Omnibus Election Code provides that no contribution for purposes of partisan political activity shall be made directly or indirectly...
Is Sara vulnerable to plunder?
BEFORE July ended, the Supreme Court came out with its decision declaring the articles of impeachment against Vice President Sara Duterte unconstitutional.
In early June,...
Impeachment overhauled
BEFORE the articles of impeachment against Sara Duterte even reached the Senate, the University of the Philippines College of Law had already published its...
Will the Senate also seek reconsideration?
THE SUPREME Court had stopped an impeachment only two times before the currently sizzling case of Sara Duterte.
In 2003 it declared some provisions of...
Cosmetic development
PEOPLE have not forgotten the dolomite beach project of the previous administration.
Almost P400 million was spent to whiten half-a-kilometer of shoreline of Manila Bay....