Presidents and family planning
BENJAMIN DE Leon, who once headed the Commission on Population (Popcom) in the 1970s and is now president of the Forum for Family Planning and Development, points to the irony of the country’s...
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No coming-out party for PLLO
PLL…WHAT? Medy who? It had always been an obscure office, at least as far as the public was concerned. But now that the Presidential Legislative Liaison Office (PLLO) seems to have suddenly emerged...
View ArticleA few good men
AS POLITICS gains ground in the bureaucracy, the government starts to lose a few good men and women with career-service eligibility. PCIJ report on the Civil Service Commission New CSC chief faces pack...
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Misplaced government spending worsens woes
In this issue: Gloria’s inglorious record: Biggest debtor, least popular The economy Misplaced government spending worsens woes ‘Dubious’ oil price hikes hurt the poorest most Romulo L. Neri: Can...
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A million came for Ninoy as reporters battled censors
THE DAY HE DIED. With apparent rush, soldiers of the Aviation Security Command (Avsecom) load the body of opposition leader Benigno ‘Ninoy’ Aquino Jr. onto a van at the tarmac of the Manila...
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Noynoy, Nene, Joker remember Ninoy
In this issue: Gloria’s inglorious record: Biggest debtor, least popular The economy Misplaced government spending worsens woes ‘Dubious’ oil price hikes hurt the poorest most Romulo L. Neri: Can...
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They all remember Ninoy, too
In this issue: Gloria’s inglorious record: Biggest debtor, least popular The economy Misplaced government spending worsens woes ‘Dubious’ oil price hikes hurt the poorest most Romulo L. Neri: Can...
View ArticleNoynoy Aquino, out of the shadows
BEFORE the August 5, 2009 funeral of his mother, there was no public clamor for Senator Noynoy Aquino to run for president in 2010. Neither was there any reason for his youngest sister, popular...
View ArticleRomancing politics
BENIGNO SIMEON ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III has become the third member of his immediate family to be thrust into the vortex of what a sociologist calls periodic episodes of “romanticism” in Philippine politics...
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Fickle presidents, opaque JBC process, elitist court
First of Two Parts MOSTLY old, mostly male, mostly born and bred in imperious Luzon and all schooled in imperial Manila. Two in every three were jurists and bureaucrats in their previous lives, and...
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