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Shamelessly fooling us
by Boo Chanco - January 6, 2025 - 12:00am
We have been shamelessly betrayed by our officials, from BBM to our elected leaders in Congress in the enactment of the 2025 national budget.
Cultural models
by Boo Chanco - January 3, 2025 - 12:00am
There was this posting on X that revealed “only 31 percent of American 8th graders are proficient in reading… 30 percent are below basic readers or functionally illiterate
A declining inflation of hope
by Boo Chanco - January 1, 2025 - 12:00am
We always like to believe that Filipinos are a happy and resilient people, seemingly unfazed by the bigger and bigger challenges faced as a consequence of bad governance.
Doing housing right
by Boo Chanco - December 30, 2024 - 12:00am
Just got back from spending the Christmas holidays with my son and his family in Singapore.
Crime and punishment
by Boo Chanco - December 27, 2024 - 12:00am
There are some folks who think that foreign investors avoid us because we are too corrupt.
Spread love this Christmas
by Boo Chanco - December 25, 2024 - 12:00am
The Christmas spirit seems to have escaped me these days. The song that keeps repeating in my head isn’t a Christmas carol but a Burt Bacharach classic from my high school years.
Poor business model
by Boo Chanco - December 23, 2024 - 12:00am
The Metro Manila condo oversupply, now equivalent to 34 months, is not surprising.
Rich country, poor country
by Boo Chanco - December 20, 2024 - 12:00am
Every time I go to Singapore to visit my son and his family, I can’t help but wonder how a small island about the size of Metro Manila but half its population and with no natural resources can be a First World...
Unsustainable greed
by Boo Chanco - December 18, 2024 - 12:00am
It is time members of Congress and other top officials realize that their continued plunder of the National Treasury through all varieties of pork barrel funds is definitely unsustainable. The government can only...
Still struggling as always
by Boo Chanco - December 16, 2024 - 12:00am
One major reason why foreign investors avoid putting up manufacturing plants here is our iffy power situation. We are notorious for red and yellow alerts in our power grids because the margin between demand and supply...
How we have fallen
by Boo Chanco - December 13, 2024 - 12:00am
It’s so heartbreaking for our generation to see how we have fallen through the years.
Technology boom in ASEAN
by Boo Chanco - December 11, 2024 - 12:00am
Secretary Deck Go is right. Malaysia and Vietnam are enjoying a technology boom as billions of dollars in FDI poured in the wake of a rush to protect high tech products from the threatened Trump tariffs starting...
Praise releases
by Boo Chanco - December 9, 2024 - 12:00am
The big problem with our government, past and present, is the credibility gap between official pronouncements and execution.
Smart government
by Boo Chanco - December 6, 2024 - 12:00am
It sounds like an oxymoron to describe our government as smart.
Rich politicians, poor people
by Boo Chanco - December 4, 2024 - 12:00am
I came across a meme on Facebook that said: “The Philippines is one of the poorest countries but with the wealthiest government officials.” Okay, we aren’t dirt poor like Haiti or some countries...
The bigger problems
by Boo Chanco - December 2, 2024 - 12:00am
“In the larger scheme of things, Sara is unimportant.
The lesser evil?
by Boo Chanco - November 29, 2024 - 12:00am
Supporters of VP Sara are castigating the Yellows and the Pinks on social media for just watching this fight between the former UniTeam partners.
Going bonkers
by Boo Chanco - November 27, 2024 - 12:00am
Searching Google AI for what ‘going bonkers’ means: a person suddenly starts acting strange, wild, bizarre…to lose one’s sanity…completely crazy and silly. Every definition describes...
Institutional failure
by Boo Chanco - November 25, 2024 - 12:00am
Never been a fan of congressional investigations, but the current House investigations are making public things that would otherwise only be whispered about.
Shortchanging our children
by Boo Chanco - November 22, 2024 - 12:00am
The State, according to our Constitution, shall protect and promote the right of all citizens to quality education at all levels, and shall take appropriate steps to make such education accessible to all.
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