Tonyo Cruz

3 weeks ago | mb.com.ph | Tonyo Cruz

HOTSPOTIn my experience as a commuter, it has been quite rare to find talkative bus drivers and conductors. Most of the talk I usually hear come from fellow passengers, or noise from smartphones desperately needing earphones. But in this particular bus ride, we passengers near the front were hearing the driver and conductor, loud and clear. We just politely listened. Commuters that we are, we were surprised about their complaint: back to back trip schedules that deny them any rest.

4 weeks ago | rappler.com | Tonyo Cruz

Hindi iprinoklama ng Commission on Elections (Comelec) ang Duterte Youth sa kabila ng pagkapanalo nito sa 2025 party-list election dahil dindinig pa ang kasong disqualification laban sa organisasyon na isinampa ng youth leaders noon pang 2019. Ayon sa mga eksperto sa batas, malakas ang kaso laban sa Duterte Youth at, kung magiging patas ang pagdinig, posibleng ma-disqualify nga ang grupo.

4 weeks ago | mb.com.ph | Tonyo Cruz

HOTSPOTWith Congress, city councils and provincial boards set to resume their lawmaking, and executive officials executing what needs to be executed, here are some ideas that could improve people’s lives one step at a time:Investigate, phase-out and eliminate sub-meters. Government should monitor how landlords bill their tenants for electricity and water, and punish those who overcharge. Perhaps a solution would be to encourage landlords to switch their rental units to prepaid electricity service.

1 month ago | mb.com.ph | Tonyo Cruz

HOTSPOTHere is something useful and educational that we could do together: Check out the election results below and beyond the senatorial and partylist races. I'm referring of course to the congressional, provincial, city, municipal and the Muslim Mindanao races. I've checked the election results in Bulacan. In city after city, municipality after municipality, I saw husbands, wives, children swapped, ran and won for the top posts. Some more durable and more daring than others.

1 month ago | mb.com.ph | Tonyo Cruz

HOTSPOTIf in the year 2000 you told me that Bayan Muna would top the 2001 partylist elections and get re-elected at least six consecutive times in Congress, I would not have believed you. Bayan Muna just was not supposed to succeed. It is a progressive leftwing party, whose first nominees were the likes of Satur Ocampo, Crispin Beltran and Liza Maza. We campaigned really hard in 2001, hoping against hope that Bayan Muna would get a decent number of votes and perhaps at least one seat.