As floodwaters rise, so do doubts
A public that tracks the money before it disappears is harder to rob quietly than one that only asks questions once the floodwaters recede.
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A public that tracks the money before it disappears is harder to rob quietly than one that only asks questions once the floodwaters recede.
The blueprint for saving lives was available, but it was set aside so a mafia of contractors and their patrons in government could carve up…
America’s confrontation with Iran has demonstrated something that military balance sheets tend to conceal: superpower status does not make…
The money did not vanish. It reappeared under the Local Government Support Fund, in a line called financial assistance to local government…
Political theater had never been quite as alive as today, where senators clash without restraint and insults fly as quickly as tantrums…
Marcos did not have to invent the leadership fund, but he failed to stop it, and such inaction in a system built on impunity is its own…
Why did a private entity take charge of the billions in public funds when a legitimate government agency was fully equipped to handle it?
If the slowdown continues, economists fear the Philippines will be among the first in the region to enter the feared stagflation.
Energy Secretary Sharon Garin’s framing — that the Philippines should build EVs, not merely ride them — is the right ambition wearing the…
More than a third of every peso collected from every Filipino taxpayer goes not to a classroom or a hospital but to a bondholder.
So you get fantastic at living with bad roads. You hit the pothole once, you blame government. Twice, you remember it. Third pothole, you…
Poor governance was palpable in his penultimate speech. Marcos entered office claiming agriculture as his priority and built his legitimacy…
Because world-class flood control requires world-class citizens. Everyone disciplined. Nobody litters. Nobody throws anything anywhere.…
The spending plan needed to put on a show because the flood control scandal blew the lid off a practice that had become normal: using the…
If the Philippines wants Pax Silica to be remembered as nation-building rather than another New Clark City promise that outran its due…
The price tag, charged to the government, is six to eight times what the material actually costs.
Dizon’s outburst may be the most honest assessment anyone has offered. But honesty from a Cabinet secretary isn’t a fix.
The rains came, as they always do. Three typhoons circled the archipelago and met the southwest monsoon head-on. Streets became rivers.…
A public that tracks the money before it disappears is harder to rob quietly than one that only asks questions once the floodwaters recede.
The blueprint for saving lives was available, but it was set aside so a mafia of contractors and their patrons in government could carve up…
America’s confrontation with Iran has demonstrated something that military balance sheets tend to conceal: superpower status does not make…
The money did not vanish. It reappeared under the Local Government Support Fund, in a line called financial assistance to local government…
Political theater had never been quite as alive as today, where senators clash without restraint and insults fly as quickly as tantrums…
Marcos did not have to invent the leadership fund, but he failed to stop it, and such inaction in a system built on impunity is its own…
Why did a private entity take charge of the billions in public funds when a legitimate government agency was fully equipped to handle it?
If the slowdown continues, economists fear the Philippines will be among the first in the region to enter the feared stagflation.
Energy Secretary Sharon Garin’s framing — that the Philippines should build EVs, not merely ride them — is the right ambition wearing the…
More than a third of every peso collected from every Filipino taxpayer goes not to a classroom or a hospital but to a bondholder.
So you get fantastic at living with bad roads. You hit the pothole once, you blame government. Twice, you remember it. Third pothole, you…
Poor governance was palpable in his penultimate speech. Marcos entered office claiming agriculture as his priority and built his legitimacy…
Because world-class flood control requires world-class citizens. Everyone disciplined. Nobody litters. Nobody throws anything anywhere.…
The spending plan needed to put on a show because the flood control scandal blew the lid off a practice that had become normal: using the…
If the Philippines wants Pax Silica to be remembered as nation-building rather than another New Clark City promise that outran its due…
The price tag, charged to the government, is six to eight times what the material actually costs.
Dizon’s outburst may be the most honest assessment anyone has offered. But honesty from a Cabinet secretary isn’t a fix.
The rains came, as they always do. Three typhoons circled the archipelago and met the southwest monsoon head-on. Streets became rivers.…