Final push for cha-cha? By Gerry Garcia WE believe Speaker Joe de V was right when he said the first Philippine legislature was established in 1907 as the Philippine Assembly and that this year ’07, we’ll be marking its 100th anniversary. Our present bicameral congress cum president, patterned after that…

JDV’s not so new tack By Jun Velasco SKEPTICS are wasting their time continually speculating on the election of a new House Speaker other than the one who engineered Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s ascent to the Presidency. Wasn’t Gloria Joe de V’s running mate in l998? So there. But that’s not…

A grave injustice to the masa By Gonzalo Duque THE l3th Congress ended with a dismal report that it didn’t act on a bill lowering the price of medicines. Senator Mar Roxas whose sights are on the presidency in 20l0 is being blamed for the killing of the bill if…

Media: thank you! By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. Needless to say, there are many private individuals and a good number of fortunately non-governmental groups and organizations that rightfully deserve the genuine gratitude of still good-willed citizens in this country. They have served much and continue to serve well in…

Joint techno commercialization projects launched By Sosimo Ma. Pablico The Bureau of Postharvest Research and Extension (BPRE) recently launched two collaborative projects with the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) and Fiber Industry Development Authority (FIDA) on the commercialization of postharvest machines equipment which their engineers have developed. The machines included…

Freedom’s heroes By Marifi Jara INDEPENDENCE is a loaded word. It connotes freedom, power and self-sufficiency. On Tuesday, June 12, we commemorate our nations 109th year of “independence”. I put that heavy word in quotation marks because in the true and deep sense, we did not really gain our sovereignty…

Gambling incorporated money unlimited By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. To claim that PAGCOR does not give payolas in furtherance of its corporate gambling interests is so hard to believe and accept. For PAGCOR to claim that it is freely leaving its survival and operation to but the deliberate will…

“What has God got to do with politics?” By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. Politics is a self-defined and defining human activity that specifies the governance of civil society. It has its own principles and objectives, its own value system and pursuant decision making pattern. It is as old as…

Jueteng and election By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. As expected, the National Elections were closely accompanied by the jueteng racket—practically nationwide. As predicted, the administration and its allies together with uniformed agencies saw nothing, heard nothing, said nothing—and did nothing. And as foreseen, the Krusadang Bayang Laban sa Jueteng…

San Carlos City’s dev’t project still on track By Gerry Garcia THE making of laws is a complicated and no-nonsense matter, yet in this free-wheeling democratic republic of ours, even celebrities from the sports and entertainment world who have not gone through high school always manage to become representatives or…