Archive for August, 2013

doctors failed to revive radio broadcaster Solijon (photo by PNP Iligan) THE CONTINUING CULTURE OF IMPUNITY under the Aquino administration has claimed the life of another mediaman, this time in Iligan City in Mindanao. An alert issued Friday by...

  AUGUST 26 was memorable because it was the day when hundreds of thousands of Filipinos, many of them "unorganized," spilled out into the streets to express their derision over the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), otherwise known...

LEGISLATORS, by their very name, are supposed to make laws. But as the pork barrel issue proves, legislators are also into many other things, such as identifying projects, hobnobbing with contractors and middlemen, and putting up foundations. In fact,...

MALOU MANGAHAS, Executive Director of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism and host of the television show Investigative Documentaries, is one of three journalists honored by the Metrobank Foundation as Journalists of the Year. The...

WITH ALL THE APPARENT RUSH for the spoils of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), more notoriously known as the pork barrel, some may find it curious to know that there are several cities in Metro Manila that failed to consume their dose of...

by Cong B. Corrales ALL ROADS TO THE MILLION PEOPLE MARCH did not lead to the Luneta Park. In the major cities across the Republic, people from all walks of life also registered the same disgust and joined the same call against the Priority...

ON NATIONAL Heroes Day, protesters from different sectors and of various advocacies trooped to Rizal Park for a single, common cause: the abolition of the pork barrel. In true rally fashion, they came bearing banners and posters painted with calls...