BIKE & RUN -- A thousand bikers and joggers enjoy a carless Sunday along the 4.8 kilometer Jose De Venecia road extension during the 1st Bike and Run Day in Dagupan City. According to Dr. Cicel Reyna, Dagupan City Sports Commissioner, the health and sports event will already be a monthly affair, every 1st Sunday of…
Opinions
Editorial
COVID-19 vs. 2022 election
IT’S obvious to everyone why some mayors still continue to be reluctant to fully stop the contagion in their communities - it is their imagined fear of payback in the 2022 polls. The fear that voters will resent any attempt at strictly enforcing the health and distancing protocols, i.e.,…
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Punchline
Local campaign issues in 2022
By Ermin Garcia Jr. SINCE most mayors and barangay kapitan cannot help but think about their political life’s future (night and day) amid the pandemic, let’s talk politics and their fate with the pandemic in the equation. Let’s start with campaign issues in 2022. Incumbent mayors whose towns and…
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General Admission
Pacquiao’s toughest 2 gambles up
By Al S. Mendoza MANNY Pacquiao has two gambles coming up. Are they both winnable? Tough question. The first gamble puts Pacquiao on the defensive. Why? He’ll be fighting someone too hungry for a win he’d do anything to succeed, including probably selling his soul to the devil in…
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Random Thoughts
My first dose of Sinovac
By Leonardo Micua I FINALLY got my first dose of the Sinovac vaccine last week and I tell you, I felt no adverse reaction after the procedure, hours after and the days following. Because I came to the vaccination site early, I was the eighth person vaccinated that day. But…
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G Spot
The transitory permanence of things
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo WE are bound to meet for a short period of time, before we move on, to places we have never been, or to places we have been before. The experiences are unique, appearing to have come from the same source, but may be coming from…
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Andromeda’s Vortex
The impossible WPS debate
By Atty. Farah G. Decano FORMER Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio recently accepted President Rodrigo Duterte’s challenge to debate on the West Philippine Sea (WPS) issue. I was wondering if the former really wanted to be tortured by possible fallacious arguments including ad hominem hurled at him. * * …
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Sports Eye
Athletes Jenner’s, Sulaiman’s gender issue
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I WAS surprised to learn that my idol in the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympic Games American decathlete Bruce Jenner, who won the gold medal in the men’s decathlon event, decided to change his gender from male to female. Being his sports-contemporary and ardent fan,…
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Learnings in Life
Damage souls still have worth
Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok Vasandani Here's a story I read in www.thoughtcatalog.com that I'd like to share, something that we can all learn from. “A shop owner placed a sign above his door that said: ‘Puppies For Sale.’ Signs like this always have a way of attracting young…
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Feelings
FIL-AM BROTHERS Jacob and Andrew Nordhagen, grandsons of Florence and Geri Fernandez of Sta. Barbara, achieved perfect scores in their ACT separately in Spokane County in Washington, USA. Two million students take the test nationwide and getting a perfect score has been rare, and for both to earn perfect scores in…
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) is considering passing a resolution asking the national Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to allow the holding of basketball games and tournaments while strictly observing health and safety protocols. The resolution proposed by Fourth District Board Member Jeremy Agerico Rosario, chairman on…
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