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Portrait of Nick V. Quijano Jr.

Nick V. Quijano Jr.

Presently a 47-year journalism veteran with various reportorial, editing, and editorial management experience.

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Following the sudden heavy rain in the metro on Friday morning, some roads are already in knee-deep floods especially along Kalaw in Manila.

Antiquated responses

While the mayors may be doing what they can to de-clog the drainage systems and put up floodwalls and barriers, there’s the suspicion that they’re not really…

Sleepless with Eala

Sleepless with Eala

Beyond the sleepless nights and the WTA tour, the ‘Eala effect’ is also about us joyfully celebrating weekly how a young Filipina lefty tennis player is…

STRAIT of Hormuz.

Pushing renewables

Still, this doesn’t at all mean we just sit back without any political or economic notions about what’s really at stake in the push for renewable energy.

Debating Pax Silica

Debating Pax Silica

Instead, what many are demanding is that the administration take a deep breath and first address serious ‘regulation’ issues.

Kleptocrats

Kleptocrats

By accurately pinning down some of our reprehensible political leaders as kleptocrats we’ll be better off. Calling them merely corrupt is too kind and cuddly.

SENATORS in their robes as judges in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte.

Dimwits

Perhaps the answer lies in the fact that some of the senator-judges put a premium on strict legal technicalities rather than on the liberalities of political…

SEN. Alan Peter Cayetano

Cayetano’s live show

To be specific about it, is Cayetano rebranding himself as an avatar of our increasingly toxic non-text-based post-literate age? One who’s taking advantage of…

‘Boredom’ strategy

‘Boredom’ strategy

‘The defense’s strategy is clear: bore people out of their wits using inane technicalities and distractions so the public just won’t care anymore.’

Coveting Batanes

Coveting Batanes

It isn’t that no one can take the fiction. Instead, everyone agreed the intellectually dishonest claim is, as Albert Camus would say, the ‘fiction is the lie…

SENATORS in their robes as judges in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte.

Trial impressions

Like poor Sen. Robin Padilla, who sheepishly admitted needing Google for legal terms, other senator-judges, as well as us ignorant curious, reached out to…