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Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto has filed the “One Town, One Doctor” bill, a novel scholarship program in which government will fund the schooling of one medical student chosen from among the youth of a town—on the condition that when he becomes a doctor, he will go back to...

I urge the NDF and the government not to pull the trigger, but to push the reboot button. In the search for peace, deadlines should be extended, or it results in more dead bodies. It is the NDF’s turn to take the high ground by declaring their own unilateral ceasefire. Then they...

By inviting past presidents and members of the minority, President Digong proves that he is a practitioner of “inclusive politics.” I can sense that he likes to crowdsource ideas. Judging by how he appreciated the views shared by the attendees yesterday, we can expect...

Emergency powers to solve traffic in mega Manila and urban centers must abide by the following principles Information regarding all programs and projects, especially contracts that will require sovereign guarantees, must be FOI-compliant. Part of the government’s reportorial...

A provision lengthening the validity period of a motor vehicle registration can be included in the proposed law making a driver’s license valid for five years, the bill’s proponent said today. Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said he is listening to proposals “from many groups...

President Duterte’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) promises should find expression in the 2017 national budget “because without funding, they will remain as empty pledges,” Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said. “Rhetoric must be translated to reality and the way to do it...

Senator Ralph Recto said the Freedom of Information (FOI) order signed by President Duterte today should cut red tape in public offices and lead to “shorter periods and simpler processes” in accessing government services. “There’s one important benchmark by which this FOI order...

Like any maiden SONA, I expect it to be more of a “looking forward” than a “looking back” speech, more of what to do and not on what has been done. So this SONA is about Setting the National Agenda, and Stating the Nation’s Aspirations. It is fair to say that what the people...