About the blog:
The blog was founded of mid-2010 mainly as an archive for Herman Tiu Laurel's columns in the Daily Tribune. It has since hosted articles of various writers (with their permissions, of course).
The authors:
Herman "Ka Mentong" Tiu Laurel is a broadcast journalist. He was a former columnist of Daily Tribune (INFOWARS/DIE HARD III) and OpinYon (Consumers' Demand!/Critic's Critic/People's Struggle). He is also a TV host for Global News Network, hosting Talk News TV and Journeys: Chronicles of our Asian Century.
He was also the former Administrator of the Philippine Refugee Processing Center (PRPC; now the Bataan Technology Park, Inc.) during the administration of Corazon C. Aquino.
Rod P. Kapunan is a columnist of Manila Standard Today (Backbencher, Saturdays) as well as an author and consultant on labor relations.
Jose Luis "Linggoy" Alcuaz was a columnist of OpinYon (Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow) and Dyaryo Pinoy.
He was also a former Commissioner of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) during the administration of Corazon C. Aquino.
Romeo "Butch" Junia was a columnist of OpinYon and a consumer's rights advocate.
Atty. Alan Paguia (1954-2015) "has been the lawyer of deposed President Joseph “Erap” Estrada sometime ago. Paguia’s license was unfairly and illegally revoked by the Supreme court after he lambasted the Supreme court justices of such a wrong-doing in illegally swearing-in Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as president." (Description from Tagapagtanggol.com) He died on September 2015 at the age of 60.
Genaro "Mang Naro/Gene" Lualhati (1921-2013) was a consumer advocate from Lawyers Against Monopoly and Poverty (LAMP), a group that, along with Atty. Cefie Padua and others, won a historical case against Meralco in 2003 where consumers of the electric cooperative were awarded a refund of their money from the excessive charging of Meralco. He died on November 2013 at the age of 92.
David Michael San Juan is a Filipino professor who currently teaches at De La Salle University-Taft, as well as the convenor of "Tanggol Wika" (Defend Language), an alliance formed after the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) removed the Filipino subject from the country's college general curriculum.
