Of all the legislative districts in the country, the first district of Leyte is considered a “no contest” district because all the seven towns and one city here are expected to vote for House Speaker Martin Romualdez as their representative in Congress.

Democracy dies when there’s no choice 

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed the Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Act last Sept. 26, and the Palace is confident that the new law will make food more affordable and accessible to many Filipinos and provide better income for local farmers and fisherfolk.

A surfeit of laws vs smuggling 

Eastern Samar may just be the poster boy of unity among the provinces in Region 8 in the forthcoming midterm elections.

Unity in Eastern Samar

Today, Monday, Sept. 9, Bamban Mayor Alice Guo will again face the Senate committees headed by Sen. Risa Hontiveros and Sen. Win Gatchalian on the various charges that she is facing, in the Senate and in the courts, all in connection with her alleged participation in the operation of illegal POGOs in Bamban, Tarlac and Porac, Pampanga.  Alice should tell all.

Alice should come clean and tell all

The jeepney drivers and operators who are identified with the Left are agitated again, as they pursue the path of protest, tigil-pasada, rallies and strikes.  They also petitioned the Supreme Court on their main demand:  the scrapping of the government's jeepney modernization program.

Oxymoron:  Jeepney and modernization 

In a recent media forum of the Manila City Hall Reporters’ Association, Manila Mayor Honey Lacuna reported that former mayor Isko Moreno’s administration left some P17.8 billion debts or outstanding bank loans for succeeding administrations to pay.

Blame game starts in Manila 

Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) Secretary Jose Rizalino Acuzar earlier submitted the feasibility study and costs involved in issuing sovereign guarantees for state housing projects.  The rationale is that such guarantees from the government would encourage state and private banks to lend to the public housing program.

How to solve the housing problem

When former mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog of Iloilo City was given the opportunity to say his piece against former President Digong Duterte at the House Quad Comm hearings, he eclipsed new media celebrity Alice Guo.

Mabilog show at the House 

No President from Emilio Aguinaldo to the present time has had a close, personal encounter with the issue of drug use---until Bongbong Marcos came along.

Cathy's epiphany & Bato vs Marbil

In Davao, it took a son of God—and therefore Jesus Christ’s younger brother—to erase all traces of positive reputation, efficiency and credibility from the national civilian police organization, the Philippine National Police.

No more credibility as a police org

VIEW FROM CALUMPANG Column Diego Cagahastian and Raffy Sarnate

VIEW FROM CALUMPANG

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