Lessons from Iloilo’s past

A historian I met through my Twitter feed (you gotta love Twitter!) recently wrote an article about how our hometown of Iloilo dealt with the 1918 flu pandemic. The article, written by Berniemack “Habagat” Arellano, and which can be found HERE, tells the story through historical records typed up in the mid-1950s, and which prefaced […]

How to Register to Vote despite the Pandemic

September 7 (tomorrow as I write this) will be the start of the second week of voter registration. The first week was generally a success with more than six thousand transactions processed in the NCR alone. In the coming, things should be better. So here are some takeaways from the week that was. Before you […]

Five reasons why the voter registration numbers are so low

#VoterReg resumed nationwide, except in places still under ECQ or MECQ. Oh, and also in places like Quezon City and Paranaque where the offices had to be shut down for emergency disinfection. In NCR, the tale of the tape (so far) looks like this: Over the last four days, the COMELEC offices in NCR processed […]