Some years ago I attended a press conference with Richard Gordon, who I guess was still running for senator, and I remember telling myself at the onset that this was one big (expletive deleted – sorry, I don’t use bad words in public, or in private, for that matter) who was talking to us. He [...]
A fellow journalist asked me the other week what I did with “the letter” I received as a student of the University of the Philippines in the early 80s. “What letter?” I asked, and he looked at me as if I had just made a joke. “The letter from the NPA (New People’s Army) activating [...]
I was surprised to hear a representative of a civil society organization (CSO) say that her group is not so keen on pushing the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to release the source code for the software to be used in the Automated Election System (AES) this May. During the round table discussion on election issues [...]
One of the issues that came up during last week’s round table discussion on election issues organized by the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) at the Asian Institute of Management in Makati City was the presence of media practitioners who are actually paid by candidates to bring their campaign on air, all the [...]
I had always been curious about two things regarding Rock Ed founder Gang Badoy. One, is she a musician? Two, how did she get such an astig nickname?
I knew Julianne back when she was still Julie Anne (two words) — or Julie, or Jules — the eldest child of Philip Tarroja and his wife Rica. Her parents are among my best friends in the world, and they were responsible for bringing me here to Davao City back in 1990 — but that’s [...]
Judging from her “professional” name, Jessa started working the streets sometime in the mid- to late-1990s when her namesake, actress-singer Jessa Zaragoza, was at the peak of her career. We found her outside the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines) regional office in Davao City on the night of January 3, and [...]
On July 8, 2009, Buluan, Maguindanao Vice Mayor Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu was called to a meeting with then-Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro in Manila to discuss the former’s decision to run for governor. More precisely, the two talked about a complaint by Governor Andal Ampatuan Sr. that Mangudadatu was “hard-headed” (matigas ang ulo) and would not [...]
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