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The Marcos Jr. administration has much convincing to do to dispel insinuations that with the “Bagong Pilipinas” slogan, we may end up as G*gong Filipino.

Trust lawmakers to find creative ways to tuck in funds for their pet projects in their districts or for assistance programs that they can brag about when they go around for meetings and consultations, particularly during the campaign season.

It is a dramatic scene we are now familiar with. Paolo Duterte was fuming mad when the House stripped him of 2B pesos in funds for his district.

The deceptions in shortcutting the Cha-cha process should unmask the politicians’ self-serving agenda to extend their term and change the form of government to allow them to stay on.

It was characteristic Rodrigo Duterte venom, said with neither veracity nor restraint, and – as we all know well by now – without objectivity.

How will the Marcos administration deliver on its BBM projects without leaving behind a Philippines sinking deeper and deeper into debt?

Can the Marcos administration, if at all, bring down the prices of consumer goods without heavy reliance on importation before its term ends in 2028?

Until this very day when the year is almost ending, Sara Duterte still has not explained how she had spent her 125M Pesos in only 11 days.

Law enforcers need to get tougher on these criminals, and regulatory agencies must be hard on telcos who fail to protect subscribers from spam and scams.

How can more senators and longer term limits solve the country's problems? How can the Cha-cha move ease poverty, bring down prices and curb corruption?

After getting killed extrajudicially in Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called “war on drugs,” many of the dead were buried in “apartment graves” that had to be leased only temporarily.

Is he the “Ka Eric” he claims to be? A first person account of one who knew Jeffrey Celiz has contested that he was no cadre ever in the CPP-NPA-NDF.