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Boo Chanco
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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.
Why no outrage?
by Boo Chanco - February 7, 2025 - 12:00am
A reader of this column wrote to me wondering: “What is the boiling point for people to go to the streets? Journalists can write and the affluent can read ‘till we’re all blue in the face.
Lowering our standards
by Boo Chanco - February 5, 2025 - 12:00am
It is disheartening to see that we Filipinos have been lowering our acceptable standards on a lot of things through the years.
Food, health and education
by Boo Chanco - February 3, 2025 - 12:00am
President BBM should be worried by now about his failure to deliver the most important basic needs of food, health and education.
New Cold War
by Boo Chanco - January 31, 2025 - 12:00am
We closed down US military bases here following the EDSA People Power Revolution after the Senate voted against the proposal of then president Corazon Aquino to renew the bases agreement.
And the deal was done
by Boo Chanco - January 29, 2025 - 12:00am
After one last 10-hour ordeal being grilled at Congress, Big Boy Sy finally agreed to a binding agreement that will let the Maharlika Investment Fund in Synergy Grid Philippines and National Grid Corp. of the Philippines...
No more exclusive franchises?
by Boo Chanco - January 27, 2025 - 12:00am
The Supreme Court might have rendered a momentous decision last year but no one noticed. The headline of the press release issued Aug. 1, 2024 by the Supreme Court is as simple as it gets: “SC: Exclusive Franchises...
Banning TikTok
by Boo Chanco - January 24, 2025 - 12:00am
A unanimous US Supreme Court decision allowed a law banning TikTok to stand.
Preventive medicine
by Boo Chanco - January 22, 2025 - 12:00am
Diseases aren’t destiny.
Health is wealth
by Boo Chanco - January 20, 2025 - 12:00am
It doesn’t get any clearer than this: good public health promotes economic growth.
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