Tonyo Cruz

Facts and figures that matter

Filipinos have a special level of disdain for traditional politicians who, after winning the elections, pamper their bailiwicks while punishing barangays or neighborhoods that did not vote for them. The same goes for the sore losers who blame voters for not seeing the “wisdom” of choosing them over the winners.

The power and duty of Congress

The House and Senate hearings into Vice President Sara Duterte’s confidential funds, the Duterte administration’s bloody drug war,  and POGOs, including those involving characters like Alice Guo, are an absolutely welcome development.

More budget reallocations, please

If there are what we could consider among the most essential government programs, two would be quite familiar to many Filipinos, and I suppose nobody would question the decision of the House appropriations committee to raise the budget for them by a whopping ₱1.29 billion.

Nothing is impossible

They may not be talking or they may not totally like one another at all, but what’s important right now is that they are doing what needs to be done in Congress. I’m referring of course to the oppositionist forces of Makabayan congresspersons led by France Castro and Akbayan Senator Risa Hontiveros.

Warner’s embrace of science and service

Most people have surely forgotten the President’s state of the nation address of July 22, 2013. But for alumni of the UP National Institute of Geological Sciences, countless activists, and perhaps members of the media, they surely remember the sight of an activist hugging a crying cop.