http://www.thelobbyist.biz/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2010-09-09T17:24:17-04:00 http://www.thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/columns/bottom_ups/participative_planning_and_budgeting.html 2010-08-05T00:38:00-04:00 2010-08-05T00:38:00-04:00 Ma. Gladys Cruz-Sta. Rita As President Noynoy Aquino tells the entire nation how we, as a people fare in his State of the Nation Address, I write fresh from http://www.thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/columns/bottom_ups/862.html 2010-06-19T17:09:00-04:00 2010-06-19T17:09:00-04:00 Ma. Gladys Cruz-Sta. Rita Winning local candidates who are on their first term are teeming with excitement as they begin their term of office. And government agencies responsible for http://www.thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/columns/bottom_ups/833.html 2010-02-28T22:47:00-05:00 2010-02-28T22:47:00-05:00 Ma. Gladys Cruz-Sta. Rita BALI, INDONESIA— The Philippines had given the world one of the most memorable lessons in democracy. People Power is very much our own brand of http://www.thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/columns/bottom_ups/spines_the_man_ushering_in_a_new_majestic_pangasinan.html 2009-02-04T12:23:00-05:00 2009-02-04T12:23:00-05:00 Ma. Gladys Sta. Rita, MPA, CSEE Impressed! I’m not much into gauging people at first instance. However, through years of honing the intuitive faculties intrinsic to most women, I have learned http://www.thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/columns/bottom_ups/child_of_the_clan_new_blood_from_the_old_hands.html 2008-12-04T08:53:00-05:00 2008-12-04T08:53:00-05:00 Ma. Gladys Sta. Rita, MPA, CSEE Leyte is home to proud history — from the ancient marriages of faith to the wars waged for new democracy. And lately, new history is http://www.thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/columns/bottom_ups/zanorte_in_focus_above_all_the_people.html 2008-11-10T05:56:00-05:00 2008-11-10T05:56:00-05:00 Ma. Gladys Sta. Rita, MPA, CSEE There is something strikingly commonplace about the slogan — “Above all, the people”. It’s like your favorite telenovela ditty. You keep hearing it everywhere. It http://www.thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/columns/bottom_ups/running_a_bureaucracy.html 2008-10-23T10:56:00-04:00 2008-10-23T10:56:00-04:00 Ma. Gladys Sta. Rita, MPA, CSEE I have realized that there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to running government. You see, I was provincial administrator of Bulacan