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Fake news

by Boo Chanco - March 26, 2025 - 12:00am

Finally, the day came when the purveyors of fake news were made to explain before a congressional committee.

Lessons from our neighbors

by Boo Chanco - March 24, 2025 - 12:00am

Have you ever driven through one of those plush neighborhoods and, amidst a row of nice-looking houses, noticed one house with a grand architecture but run down and obviously seen better times?

Stop budget thievery by Congress

by Boo Chanco - March 21, 2025 - 12:00am

Over the last three years, Congress reduced the budgets for badly needed infrastructure and social services originally proposed by the BBM administration, to fund Congressional pork barrel projects to the tune of...

A failing state?

by Boo Chanco - March 19, 2025 - 12:00am

When the late President Manuel Quezon said he preferred a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like heaven by the Americans, he didn’t have the prescience to know how we will all be...

Political noise and the economy

by Boo Chanco - March 17, 2025 - 12:00am

“Uncertainty is not a good thing,” JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon remarked when asked about the direction of the American economy.

Tarnishing our international image

by Boo Chanco - March 14, 2025 - 12:00am

The inefficiency of our government is on display when two or more units work at cross purposes with each other.

Updating operations and costs

by Boo Chanco - March 12, 2025 - 12:00am

Disruptions can produce beneficial effects. Even the absolutely disruptive Elon Musk operation to cut down the Federal bureaucracy will uncover instances of abuse or outdated staffing and programs that had been going...

ABS-CBN pays its debts

by Boo Chanco - March 10, 2025 - 12:00am

I had an inkling it was coming.

A tycoon or CEO as president?

by Boo Chanco - March 7, 2025 - 12:00am

Our business editor, Iris Gonzales, wrote a thought-provoking piece in her Op-Ed column the other week that wondered if a business tycoon or CEO can be a better future president of our country than the crop of plundering...

Palpak

by Boo Chanco - March 5, 2025 - 12:00am

The Department of Transportation must be jinxed. Through the years, over several administrations, it can’t seem to get its projects done on time.

Watching democracies die

by Boo Chanco - March 3, 2025 - 12:00am

The US voting with Russia, North Korea, Belarus and Hungary in a UN resolution on the Ukraine war is shocking and unimaginable.

Axing government jobs

by Boo Chanco - February 28, 2025 - 12:00am

There has been a lot of weeping and gnashing of teeth in the United States these days as Trump and Elon Musk mounted their drive to cut the size of the Federal government workforce.

Do-it-yourself governance

by Boo Chanco - February 26, 2025 - 12:00am

The social compact between the government and the people appears to be broken.

Health care blues

by Boo Chanco - February 24, 2025 - 12:00am

Do the poor get sick more often than the rich? Do the poor require hospital care more often than the rich? Malnourished and living in packed neighborhoods with pretty bad sanitary conditions, the poor are more likely...

Worrisome

by Boo Chanco - February 21, 2025 - 12:00am

What’s happening in America today is something we can’t just watch from a distance. It is a mess out there and everything seems like a miniseries streaming on Netflix.

Let’s use our brains

by Boo Chanco - February 19, 2025 - 12:00am

There’s no doubt we have enough Filipinos with good working brains that should have been used to elevate our country’s economy a long time ago.

No focus and continuity

by Boo Chanco - February 17, 2025 - 12:00am

A major problem of our government is its lack of focus or an ability to follow through a big project from inception to completion.

The Ugly American 2.0

by Boo Chanco - February 14, 2025 - 12:00am

It is sad to watch a world power in the process of imploding before your eyes.

Kaya natin! Parang hindi!

by Boo Chanco - February 12, 2025 - 12:00am

There are now a lot of articles on the internet about how investors are looking at ASEAN for manufacturing, fleeing China to escape the Trump tariffs.

Confused government

by Boo Chanco - February 10, 2025 - 12:00am

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” is a quote attributed to Albert Einstein but there is no conclusive proof he said it.

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