MORE MEANINGFUL BILLS, NOT STREET-NAME CHANGES

AFTER public opposition met the announcement in October last year that Quezon City was renaming Del Monte Avenue to Fernando Poe Jr. Avenue, the efforts by politicians shifted to looking for another thoroughfare to be so renamed.

A week ago, the Senate passed on final reading a bill renaming Roosevelt Avenue to FPJ Avenue.

I admire our politicians’ tenacity, vigor, and can-do attitude in pushing for this pet bill. But we’re in a pandemic, people are dying, more children are sleeping hungry at night, families are getting torn apart, and the expectation is for the legislative to rise to the occasion by crafting or improving meaningful laws to cushion the impact of the pandemic and ensure effective check and balance in government.

How I wish they apply that same level of tenacity, vigor, and can-do attitude to passing meaningful bills, too.