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The message is more important than where the messenger is.  Laurel did not deliver any, Osmeña just once, and Quirino via radio from a hospital bed in Baltimore, Maryland, USA where he was recuperating. The principal audience of the SONA are not the politicians inside the

Health-related announcements are better left to doctors. If the nation is the patient, let those trained to have good bedside manners announce the treatment.  We have to choose and curate the words we use, so nothing will be lost in translation and transmission.  We

DTI should barter that off-the-cuff statement with common sense, and exchange it with a clarificatory statement that no law is being violated by neighbors swapping goods in the community chat group.  When you exchange a tax-paid shirt too small for you for tax-paid shorts

At a time when we need every media outlet to disseminate life-saving information, we don’t shut down the one with the widest reach.  When each and every job must be saved, we don’t cause the wholesale unemployment of thousands. When we need every tax peso collected so

What’s the use of a barrier when couples hold hands in going to the motorcycle, and kiss each other goodbye after the ride?  As a virus shield, it is as effective as installing a concrete road divider on the matrimonial bed. Isn’t the protection offered them by the

Sending them home by boat was no Dunkirk-like evacuation, and yet it failed. The huddled, hungry, drenched stranded travellers painstakingly complied with all the health and police requirements, only to be denied boarding because of a new requirement. Their dreams of going home

Pride marches celebrate equality so only the tone-deaf will respond to its commemoration with violence and intolerance. It is an internationally celebrated activity and it is only in lands ruled by bigotry that a Pride march and all the ideas it espouses are repressed – by

Never were brilliant ideas articulated by a beautiful voice. Ask any old timer in Batasan, and Tony Cuenco’s voice was the most beautiful to ever reverberate in the halls of the House. His was also one of the most brave. It was heard loud and clear during the era when contrarian

You want to restart the economy? Then let PUVs restart their engines. There are three important T’s today: tests, trabaho, transportasyon. Screening for coronavirus is no longer a requisite for returning to work. But without a ride, there is no work. And no work, no pay. Allowing

Policemen, in general, have acted as officers and gentlemen who serve and protect the people during this pandemic. These frontliners deserve the nation’s thanks. It is, however, hard to find gallantry or valor in the acts of the few who arrested hungry drivers demanding work,