Are typhoons caused by climate change?
MY BELOVED countrymen,
Just in case you are wondering, it is not true that typhoons are caused by climate change. What is true is...
International mobile equipment identity
MY FELLOW Filipinos,
I do not know who the technocrats are who proposed the whole idea of Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card registration, but...
Can an invasive fish species be naturalized?
MY FELLOW Filipinos, in theory an invasive fish species will always be an invasive species no matter what.
According to Microsoft Copilot, “an invasive...
Let’s have more public rental housing
MY DEAR countrymen,
When I was living in New York City many years ago, I was able to observe how the city government was...
Let’s have more mobile clinics
MY DEAR countrymen, as the saying goes, “If Mohammad cannot go to the mountain, then the mountain must come to Mohammad.”
That logic seems...
Let’s build new manmade lakes!
MY FELLOW Filipinos, as an additional solution towards flood control, has anyone suggested the building of new manmade lakes?
If no one has suggested...
Where is our organ donation database system?
TO MY FELLOW Filipinos:
In fairness to the Department of Health (DOH), I am not going to say yet that we do not have...
Data driven versus headline driven governance
MY FELLOW Filipinos:
There is no question that the two houses of our Congress have the power to conduct public hearings “in aid of...
Those days of many honest men
MY FELLOW Filipinos:
I am publishing here a letter that was sent to me by my brother Rey, an architect and town planner in...
Let’s welcome the gig economy
MY DEAR countrymen:
Perhaps many of you have already heard of the gig economy? The more vulgar term for it is “racket”, as in...