LILIA ‘Baby’ Pineda is on her second term as provincial board member of Pampanga. She was mayor of Lubao for nine years, and before that she was a town councilor for five years. Yet when many look to her husband as the real political power, they are...

THE Social Weather Stations is pushing for the removal of a section of R.A. 9006 or the Fair Elections Act, which has been struck down as unconstitutional. Section 5.4 prohibits the publication of election surveys for 15 days before elections are...

TODAY, as we again commit to memory the fourth and final day of that one singular event 21 years ago that brought Filipinos together on a strip of highway and showed them their potential for greatness, the PCIJ makes available the feature stories that we...

IN what was described as a “crude attempt” to dispute the findings of the Melo Commission and of United Nations Special Rapporteur Philip Alston on the extrajudicial killings, the military released a 20-year-old video tagging certain party-list groups...

HARDLY anyone paid notice this week to the four-day commemoration of the first Edsa People Power revolt that ousted Ferdinand Marcos 21 years ago. For sure, the occasion has been overshadowed by an election season that's starting to heat up, as well as...

TRADERS look forward to higher economic growth this year, the Makati Business Club (MBC) reported. Eighty-one percent of respondents in an internal survey believe that economic growth in 2007 will be higher than the 5.4%-record of 2006. Overall, MBC...

THERE is circumstantial evidence linking some elements of the military to extra-judicial killings, even as there is no official State policy that sanctions such killings, according to the 79-page report of the Melo Commission which was finally released to...