[Newspoint] Crossing into 2025 with mixed feelings

If you got your priorities right, you would have every reason to feel optimistic and outraged at the same time crossing into the new year. That’s because while gains in personal freedoms may be in prospect, setbacks are the case for basic public services.

For the optimism, the inspiration is the trial-court decision fining two red-taggers P2 million. It is nothing short of a landmark decision, if you ask me, given the eternity of hopelessness preceding it. It may well work as an institutional...