By Leonardo Micua   TYPHOON “Crising” caught many towns and cities not only in Pangasinan, but also in many parts of Luzon, the islands of Mindoro and Palawan, and some areas in the Visayas by surprise. They did not expect that kind of weather disturbance could trigger prolonged torrential rains that…

By Leonardo Micua    IT will no longer surprise many of us if the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) proceed on December 1 as scheduled. The announcement from the Commission on Elections that it is resuming the registration of new voters for the BSKE in August after postponing it…

By Leonardo Micua   THERE’S a whale of a difference between the present and the past Sangguniang Panlungsod of Dagupan City. Firstly, there is no more dividing line that separates the majority and minority councilors, a first in the city, with an 11-1 composition. In contrast, the past SP was…

By Leonardo Micua   WATCHING the inaugural session of the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod on Tuesday – together with media colleagues Eva, Violy and Lina – I cannot imagine from my seat how Councilor Dada Reyna, as the lone opposition in the city council dominated by the allies of Mayor Belen…

By Leonardo Micua   THOUGH I wore a MAGA (Make America Great Again) baseball cap gifted by our Los Angeles City-based correspondent Leonie Galvez on some occasions, I must admit I was not really a Donald  Trump fan. Well, not until he recently brokered what seemed to be a total…

By Leonardo Micua   AS I was writing this piece, breaking news from CNN came on TV about President Donald Trump reviewing an Iran attack plan and holding off for now. Many lives have been lost, maimed and decapitated on both the Israeli and Iranian sides since the war between…

By Leonardo Micua   THE most recent attempt to smuggle over one ton of methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu) valued at P6. 89 billion into Pangasinan was foiled by law-enforcement authorities with crucial help from local fishermen. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident. Similar illicit operations have taken place in the…

By Leonardo Micua SHORTLY after being sworn in as the next chief of the Philippine National Police, General Nicolas Torre III issued a marching order to the men in uniform nationwide to be out on the streets so they can be more responsive to calls for help from the civilian…

By Leonardo Micua   RUSHING against time to make a last hurrah, the seven majority councilors in the Dagupan Sanggunian believe they can still ramp up the approval of three proposed ordinances and two resolutions before the term of six of them expires on June 30. Based on the  May…

By Leonardo Micua   IT is sad to note that not one of our homegrown party-list groups won a congressional seat in the May 12 elections. This is the first time that one of the most populous provinces in the country is not sending a party-list representative to the House….