MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza There are 10 million senior citizens, and if most of them are qualified voters – going by the age requirement, they are 100 percent eligible – do you suppose they’ll be voting as one for the one and only Senior Citizens Party-list? As it happens the SCP-list is just...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza That L, in my book, stands for Legendary, although the complete initials spell Luis C. Singson. Does anybody know Chavit Singson by his Christian or any other name or aliases? Local (and legendary) kingpin, a kingmaker even outside his beloved Ilocos Sur, a national and...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Yes, the Constitution guarantees a free press, but being a human institution, there’s no escaping media bias even where none is intended. Still, for watchers of television news, radio listeners, newspaper readers, what fun to navigate election news and coverage of the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza That’s how the twin senators in their look-alike outfits tailored for the rugged life of the campaign will package the work. An active, dynamic partnership. Counseling, consulting each other. Council of 2, cabinet, bureaucracy. Sen. Panfilo Lacson, presidential...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza When LPA meets Malakas, destructive floods occur in places in the Visayas and Mindanao while Metro Manilans pray for rain. Rain is as utilitarian as it is romantic, but what a waste, when all that precious precipitation just goes down the drain. And yet, and yet, at...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Late in the last century, Sebastian Chua made a drastic business decision. He shut down what was at one time Asia’s largest paper factory. He didn’t explain the reasons, not to me anyway (his presses printed the countless editions of my book about mistresses), but it...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Do you believe in surveys? The bad news for lots of people of a certain persuasion is that the five leading pollsters – SWS, Pulse Asia, OCTA, Publicus, Laylo – have “harmony” (quoting one of their researchers) in that their results are agreeably and arguably the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Weeks and weeks before President Duterte turned 77 and months before he will step down, the Presidential Communications Operations Office was already busy releasing tons of information on “The Duterte Legacy” in print, on air, and throughout the width and breadth of...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza There’s a new man at MMDA and he’s about to take your breath away (if not your car). Chairman Don Artes has two options added to the current EDSA protocol. One of them would keep private cars off EDSA two days of the week. The other invokes “daylight-saving time,”...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Not unexpectedly, the government TV channel has been running a series of news features on the Duterte legacy, including his signature war on drugs. On his birthday, the President was congratulated by his executive team – cabinet secretaries – for having fulfilled his...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza You have two days left to greet us a Happy Women’s Month and let us choose, be a happy woman or have a happy month? Happiness is a moment, a condition or an attitude; like love, hard to define. But if a country (or nation) may be considered a family, as in the UN...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza What happened to Ping Lacson should not have happened, should not happen to anyone. This is politics as usual. This is politics. He put it this way: “It is the art of self-contradiction where strange bedfellows can sleep soundly together.” Presidential candidate...
