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MWSS, water firms clash over ‘guaranteed returns’ 30 Jul 2013 | 03:36 pm
AFTER A NOISY CLASH over the possible disallowance of claims for income tax payments, the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage System (MWSS) and its two private concessionaires are in the midst of another ...
Scam, no! PDAF a ‘mafia’ of executive & legislature 21 Jul 2013 | 03:17 pm
THERE’S NO making nice about this: when the shit hits the fan, the squall and stench are sure to rub off on everyone. And so it is with pork barrel, the P25-billion annual tab on taxpayers that, says...
The flow of pork 21 Jul 2013 | 03:17 pm
IMPLEMENTING THE Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) takes a long and layered process because it is a lump-sum item, which means that its purpose has yet to be identified during the budget yea...
17 Senate bets, parties splurge P446M on ‘pre-campaign ads’ 18 Jul 2013 | 03:02 pm
Last of Two Parts THREE MONTHS ahead of the official campaign period for the May 2013 elections, 17 “prospective” candidates to the Senate and their political parties had hit the ground running, bomb...
Expense reports of Senate bets do not match sums of pol ads 17 Jul 2013 | 02:45 pm
First of Two Parts THERE WERE late and incomplete filings, but the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is still considering the submission of election expenditure and contribution reports for the recen...
Risa & Teddy: Elections a debt trap 11 Jul 2013 | 03:23 pm
BOTH VETERANS of the “parliament of the streets,” they mounted separate failed, if high-level and issues-focused, campaigns for the Senate in the May 2013 elections. Yet while Ana Theresia ‘Risa’ Hont...
P465-M donations from kin, own money sent 11 to Senate 11 Jul 2013 | 03:23 pm
Last of Two Parts WHO GETS VOTED is just half the story of elections. Who finances the campaign, who gains or loses money, and by how much, are the more salacious pegs to the narrative. Money makes ...
Firms in the red, gov’t contractors top donors of Senate bets, parties 10 Jul 2013 | 03:30 pm
First of Two Parts THE OPULENT names of tycoons and captains of industry, as well as of firms ranked among the country’s top 500 by sales and revenue, used to populate the list of donors to candidate...
Foundations for elections 10 Jul 2013 | 03:30 pm
THEY WERE supposedly set up to uplift the lives of those in need. Yet in their first few months of operation, they served a rather different, yet specific, purpose: to promote the candidacy of two leg...
MWSS, water firms clash over taxes, disallowed expenses 3 Jul 2013 | 03:02 pm
SUBMITTING DOCUMENTS to government regulators is usually a routine matter assigned to messengers who hand over the parcels, and get a receipt in return. But when Manila Water Corp. sent almost 30 box...
