(First of two parts)

Recently, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) announced plans to bring back to at least 30 percent the “pre-pandemic” bus routes in Metro Manila and nearby provinces in order to accommodate the expected rush of students once full face-to-face classes start in November.

Disrupted routes, disrupted lives

In the past few days, as I work home from work, I always pass by a group of vendors selling lemons along the sidewalk in Pacita Complex, San Pedro City. The price: just P100 per “tumpok”, which is about nine to ten pieces.

Food shortage or oversupply?

There was once a joke in the comic strip "Archie" revolving around George Santayana's famous quote, "Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.”

 Historical distortionism

The first time the notion of putting up a cable-car system in Metro Manila was floated up was in 2016 by former Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade.

Flights of fancy

(Second of two parts)  

Another issue hurled against the implementation of the Metro Manila Route Rationalization system is that bus operators and commuters alike were “jinxed” after the metropolis’ major routes were re-organized.

Recently, Supreme Court Justice Marvic Leonen sounded the alarm over a worrying trend in the spam text messages Filipinos have been receiving lately.

Mishandled contact tracing?

Our heroes paid dearly for our freedom and suffrage, but the people who inherited them just sold them for a hundred pesos.
-          Gary Lising, Filipino humorist


On heroes and villains

One of the things I admire about the late President Ramon Magsaysay is that he may be one of the few leaders of the Philippines to solve the root problem of the country's Communist insurgency.

Solving the root cause

In one chapter of Jose Rizal's first novel Noli Me Tangere, the protagonist of the story, Crisostomo Ibarra, met with a schoolteacher who tried – and apparently failed – to encourage his students to learn more using methods that may look "revolutionary" (in the literal sense) to the Spanish priests who rule the Philippines then.

Learning poverty

I remember reading somewhere that, in the early days of Communist China, shortages of every basic commodity are part of the Chinese people's everyday lives.

Poverty porn

The (Un)Common Sense column by OpinYon News columnist, James Veloso.

(Un)Common Sense

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On heroes and villains

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Historical distortionism

Disrupted routes, disrupted lives

Disrupted routes, disrupted lives

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