Can the new Committee on Appropriations, a Catholic school graduate, and masters at Harvard, steer the 2026 budget free from insertions and corruptions

It is more fun criticizing

This post has high hopes for the new Committee on Appropriations  chair Mikaela Suansing, a Philscience scholar, Ateneo Graduate, and Harvard Masters on Public Policy to be unlike her predecessor Co, who figured in what some say as more corrupt budget.

It did not happen with former head of said committee Sid Ungab

However, she cant do much when bicam meetings and minutes are sidestepped and there are insertions

We wish her the best of luck. and power      

Improving public sector management and making headway

Social and political criticisms

I was in an Eastern Visayas city, west of the island.  It is a port city and located in a cove and that it means it is a safe harbor, and plenty of marine life for food.  It is in the RORO route also.

However, I believe that the LGU management, especially town planning, town beatufiication, further health and sanitation can be improved.

Am sure the DILG can send many of the public officials to MPA as it did to some before to improve the LGU executive and entrepreneurial skills so that they can keep up churning new ideas to improve the uniqueness, attractiveness of their LGU, and thus business activities, and consequently their revenues.

Unfortunately for the city, a mother and son team (mother is head of the province, son of the city) with Chinese sounding name would seem to lord it over, thus diminishing the need to improve.

                                  Night cityscape

                                A mountaintop bar and swimming pool

                                        The port

                                        A pizza place -  nice ambiance, food, and price

Thanks for the Newly Paved Roads at the Subdivision

Filosofo Tasio Lives

Yesterday, we were amazed that all of a sudden, a road connecting to the main thoroughfare was asphalted.  There was the automated asphalt paver, two compactors (vibratory) and plenty of workers.  The stretch was about two hundred meters and was about 2 inches thick paving.  It was over in less than a day.  Thanks to DPWH, provincial and municipal engineers who made this possible (and other public officials)

It took over a decade to have this repair;  it took over nearly a quarter of century before the local government took responsibility for the subdivision road  because of certain legal niceties:   the corporation owning the subdivision road was defunct and hence could not make the deed of donation; and 2 the titles to the road was foreclosed by a govt bank.  But we argued that since the property is now with the government, having been foreclosed, there is no need for the TCT nor the deed of donation.  Maybe now they saw the light and made the repairs.

However, the nice roads nice appearance will be shortlived, I predict because of the following reasons:  1.cargo trucks carrying heavy load of steel bars will destroy the thin crust of asphalt in no time at all and 2. there is no drainage.  The water logged asphalt will disintegrate very soon.

As for l, the owner of the warehouse which is located in the subdivision doesnt care about how the subdivision roads look like.  May they not increase in number.  We could advise him to relocate his warehouse.  But then again he will invoke his property rights under the constitution.

It is difficult really to enforce public policy, or integrative policy.  So much compromise to be made

My First Blog Post on Ulo ng Nuno

This nation can be great again

Hi. I opened this blog in order to make comments on public policies.  I do not want to meddle into politics and public policies.  But somehow, they piss us off, and sometimes, they can prevent you and me from improving and progressing.

Some policies and practices are there unchanging.  They have to be criticized and changed too.

Most of the time, we say, do not blame the public sector (the government).  It does not have all the answer.,

But most of the time we blame the government.  We are like this because of the government.

We do not have to rely on the government all the time.  At the same time, we submit, the government must enable us to move forward, rather than restrict us.