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.
Intervening street protests across the continental US registered the disagreement of the American people with Trump, whose utopian, albeit myopic, view of…
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There was a premature statement that Iran had been obliterated when, in reality, the ‘two to three weeks promise’ of an end to the US mission only highlighted…
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Dante’s demonstrable trait of championing the public interest over rent-seekers, lobbyists, and oligarchs appears to rattle the cage of the Senate as a…
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They have been senators for the longest time and getting reelected, to them, is like renewing a driver’s license, easy-peasy.
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Truly, the three-page document containing six ‘whereases’ has to be revisited in light of the corruption that is yet unresolved to this day.
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As one unknown author said, ‘We don’t know them all, but we owe them all.’
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When things go south, all that the Palace occupant does is hold a press conference for a lot of mumbo jumbo or gobbledygook.
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The matter of proportionality in relation to population has no scientific basis in the field of fiscal governance, as the same proceeds from a different metric.
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Seen on the global stage, our leaders have only proven themselves to be less than good actors or performers.
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On anti-dynasty bills, there’s yet no best doable prescription from a whole pack of subject matter experts, academics, constitutionalists, advocates, and…
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