Author: Alex Vidal

No clear winner yet

The winner in the U.S. presidential race between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joseph Biden may not be known yet after several days or even weeks.

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[Opinion] We pray for America

WE hope and pray that the world’s biggest democracy will survive when America’s 240 million registered voters (150 million of them were expected to cast their ballots either by mail-in or in-person) decide for their next president on November 3.

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[Opinion] ‘Beauty and the Brave’

WITH apology to Walt Disney Feature Animation which produced the 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film “Beauty and the Beast” and released by Walt Disney Pictures, “Beauty and the Brave” is how I describe the contrasting exposure in the national media of two Ilonggos in the last week of October albeit in two separate events and controversies.

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[OPINION] There’s nothing to ‘sacrifice’ now?

IN April this year, or a month after the Philippines started to absorb the initial blows of COVID-19 pandemic, we wrote that proponents of the Panay-Guimaras-Negros (PGN) Island Bridges Project “should not sacrifice” the P275 billion project under the Duterte administration’s Build, Build, Build program “no matter what happens.”

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