CONFIDENTIAL documents allegedly emanating from Malacañang were divulged to the public by militant party-list groups today, depicting an apparent counter-scheme of the Arroyo administration to prevent "leftist and left-leaning party-list organizations"...

Team Unity billboard at the Quezon Memorial Circle gets vandalized by an obviously anti-ASO (Angara, Sotto, Oreta) partisan. [photo by Jaileen Jimeno] Reader contributions to the "Photo of the Week" section are certainly welcome. Send them to this...

BARELY a month left in the campaign, reproductive health issues have yet to figure prominently in the platforms of candidates running for public office in the coming May elections. Population watchdogs attribute this apparent reluctance among...

WHEN Bulacan Governor Josie de la Cruz asked her brother to run as barangay captain in Bocaue, people knew that Joselito 'Jonjon' Mendoza was being groomed to take her place in 2007. He now sits as an ex-officio member of the Bulacan Provincial Board and...

AS part of the PCIJ's 2007 elections coverage, we are posting the profiles of the 36 senatorial candidates, along with their party platforms. Twelve candidates are running under the administration's Team Unity, 11 are under the Genuine Opposition, six...

SINCE Josefina "Josie" de la Cruz became governor of Bulacan in 1998, the once moribund province has been thriving. Many of its programs in health and social services have been recognized by various bodies, and its streamlined bureaucracy has become the...

IN order to ensure that this year's elections are clean and credible, Halalang Marangal (HALAL) or the Network of Citizens for Honest Elections and Truthful Statistics will conduct a citizens' audit based on the precinct results of each voting...