Rotting crops, paved promises
By taking control, the DA promised absolute transparency. It rolled out a high-tech ‘FMR Watch’ portal that uses time-lapse photography to…
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Daily Tribune editorials — the newspaper's official position on current issues.
Threading rigged path
If participation itself has been manipulated, then any interpretation of the threshold that counts only those senators able or willing to…
Weight of eight
Our biggest hope is Alex Eala, the latest toast of professional tennis, who made the difficult decision to skip the China Open to carry the…
Greedy crocs era
The lesson from Floodgate is simple. A president who signs a budget cannot later distance himself from what that budget financed.
Peso’s real reckoning
Diversifying exports and attracting manufacturing investment is a decade-long project, but every year Manila delays starting it is another…
Senate can’t usurp SC power
Escudero will commit a grave error if he subjects the question to a vote since the impeachment court cannot decide on whether it would…
Congress stole your election
But by the House’s logic, every captain can say they have unfinished programs. What programs.Miss Gay Barangay 2028.
Another failed budget
When lawmakers control the purse while campaigning for another term, they are tempted to make the budget work for the ballot box.
No money for more teachers
Martin Romualdez became Speaker with the education system we had. How much more educated does the country need to get?
Kingfish swims
Romualdez himself, before his arrest, said that he would not go quietly and would not go alone, which was more of a warning than a threat.
Golden cauldron and long arm of inquiry
This case matters because it tests the country’s commitment to the rule of law and accountability. For the citizens, the cauldron…
Caesar’s wife test
The measure was not simply about proving guilt. It was about the impossibility of governing under a cloud of suspicion, and the obligation…
Unpunished towering arrogance
Torre is his appointee, and if the President is serious about restoring public confidence, he should not wait for the LTO or MMDA to…
Grumbling gut issues
The flagship cash assistance scheme, UPLIFT, reaches 7.6 million on paper, but only 5.6 million have actually been served.
Outraged many times over
Today, Alex Eala and Lea Salonga show the world the best Filipinos can be, a reminder of the values that carried us through harder times.
Drowning accountability
It is a mystery where the money for a specific classroom goes; only that some large sum exists somewhere in the spending plan for…
Lack of foresight or bad luck?
With both Brownlee and Boatwright unavailable, the best thing the federation could have done was to deploy a squad with extensive…
Perpetual Palace carousel
Financial resources, the little that can be generated amid tepid growth, are being used to pay down debt faster rather than to grow the…