Daily Tribune
Primer Pagunuran currently drafts his dissertation proposal on infrastructural policy via public private partnership for his Doctor of Public Administration. With a master’s in public policy at UP Diliman, he used to be the chief of staff of key legislators of the House of Representatives. At the Center for Integrative and Development Studies, he is part of the research team that begun seminal work on Philippine federalism. He has written in local and foreign journals and presented papers in international conferences. In between, he plays tennis, loves to travel, fends for birds, a dog and cat lover, a marksman, a widower.
“There’s no way a total POGO ban can be triggered by a single conviction out of 31 cases clogging the courts — screaming for truth and justice.
Primer Pagunuran · · 3 min read
“There’s also a whole concern about how mainstream media — being owned and run by oligarchs and elites — chose to project how burning issues should be scoped…
Primer Pagunuran · · 3 min read
“Worse, social weather stations pose as effective allies to trim people’s choices down to the same old names on the popularity chart.
Primer Pagunuran · · 3 min read
“One, while the President cannot be reelected to the position, senators can have two terms.
Primer Pagunuran · · 3 min read
“A simple ‘bounded rationality’ could have gone a long way than the rather monolithic ideological espousal of ‘anti-China sentiment.’
Primer Pagunuran · · 3 min read
“When the Senate inquiry smashed the dignity of a lowly municipal mayor to smithereens, it only showcased how uncharacteristically the body failed to be ‘free…
Primer Pagunuran · · 3 min read
“That 186 foreign and Filipino workers were rescued at the Lucky South 99 complex from human trafficking, torture, and women sold for sex.
Primer Pagunuran · · 3 min read
“Civic leader Teresita Ang See cannot be faulted in describing the probe as a ‘zarzuela,’ a case of Sinophobia, and an emerging anti-Chinese narrative peddled…
Primer Pagunuran · · 3 min read
“On a lighter note, one Rep. Rodante Marcoleta issued ‘unsolicited advice’ to the senators throwing caution to the wind in the case of Mayor Alice Guo.
Primer Pagunuran · · 3 min read
“No less than the President should call for a moratorium on this whole bureaucratic rigmarole before it damages our collective psyche.
Primer Pagunuran · · 3 min read
