
Keep it simple, stupid
“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…
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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 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…
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“Worse, social weather stations pose as effective allies to trim people’s choices down to the same old names on the popularity chart.
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“One, while the President cannot be reelected to the position, senators can have two terms.
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“A simple ‘bounded rationality’ could have gone a long way than the rather monolithic ideological espousal of ‘anti-China sentiment.’
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“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…
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“That 186 foreign and Filipino workers were rescued at the Lucky South 99 complex from human trafficking, torture, and women sold for sex.
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“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…
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“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.
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“No less than the President should call for a moratorium on this whole bureaucratic rigmarole before it damages our collective psyche.
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“It cannot be denied that Senate hearings have become a kind of refuge for various types of actors — all at taxpayer expense.
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