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LGU Bonds: Inhibiting and Enabling Factors
(Second of 3 Parts) When the Province of Cebu successfully issued its P300M Cebu Equity Bond Unit (CEBU) in 1990, some people thought that other…
Where Am I Today?
In a 1963 song titled “Blowing in the Wind,” Bob Dylan asked simple, yet hard, questions: How many roads must a man walk down, before…
Local Government Bonds: Will They Work?
(First of 3 Parts) When we earn less than what we need to spend, what we do is borrow money. The “we” can apply to…
A Parent’s Grief
Once upon a time, in the early 2000s, I helped some local government units (LGUs) in Samar and Leyte provinces prepare their Land Use Plans…
Napoleon Brandy At Rodrigo Rhum: Silang Mga Astig (Daw)
As it often happens, dictators realize that it is harder to win the hearts and minds of people than to control them with the barrel…
Scarlet Letters, Once More Without Malice
Nathaniel Hawthorne was once a political appointee. He worked at Salem Custom House, Massachusetts, USA, from 1846 to 1849. Political climate change eventually hit him,…
Letter to the Pope
Greetings from the Irreverent Ingming Aberia, the Philippines, to the Vicar of Christ, the Vatican. Long before the Philippine National Police got its power to…
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