True State of Nation unknown without FOI in place
ON MONDAY, July 22, President Benigno S. Aquino III delivers his fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) to the country. In it, the President is expected to give his perspective of the true state of...
View ArticleDATA A DAY: SONA in Filipino
EVERY YEAR, the President of the Republic must deliver his State of the Nation Address before Congress and the Filipino people. In that address, the President has always been expected to apprise the...
View ArticleDATA A DAY: How many SONAs by Marcos?
THOSE WHO LIVED THROUGH the Marcos years would probably remember how Marcos seemed to have been president forever. Elected to his first term in 1965, Ferdinand E. Marcos won a second term in 1969. He...
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PNoy delivers 5th SONA amid street protests
PRESIDENT BENIGNO S. AQUINO III delivered his fifth and penultimate State of the Nation Address Monday amid moves to impeach him for his administration’s controversial Disbursement Acceleration Program...
View ArticleSlideshow: SONA in the streets
by Cong B. Corrales and Julius D. Mariveles While members of Congress, guests and foreign dignitaries clapped their hands to a melodramatic State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Benigno S....
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DAP backers buck calls for PNoy’s second term
By Julius D. Mariveles LOCAL GOVERNMENT officials in Negros Occidental who were the first to issue a statement of support for President Benigno S. Aquino III over the controversial Disbursement...
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Inflation, workers’ pay, corruption? PNoy scores low approval ratings
THE ADMINISTRATION of President Benigno S.Aquino III failed to score a majority approval rating on any of the 12 “urgent national concerns and issues” on which it is performance was rated in March 2015...
View Article‘Include FOI in short-list’
By Cong B. Corrales NOW that the House Committee of Public Information has filed its report on the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill to the Office of the Secretary General, the bill’s authors are...
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Duterte’s war: Big kill of small fry, puny drugs haul, defies PNP rules
BANGKAY SA BANGKETA… kasi nga drug pusher ako.This is the sad refrain in a sardonic poem that a young Filipina wrote and read in a video she posted last week on her Facebook page. It does not matter,...
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SONA sa Lansangan
By Jil Danielle Caro, Ehcel Hurna, and Davinci MaruLibu-libong manggagawa, mangingisda, magsasaka, katutubo, estudyante, guro, at iba pang sektor ng lipunan ang nakilahok sa pagkilos para sa unang...
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