VANDALISM OF CITY PROPERTY – Torn tarpaulins provided by the Dagupan City government to cover the area occupied by vendors’ stalls have become eyesores beside the city hall but the market officials just leave them be without thought of making the vendors account for the torn and outright vandalized property of…
Opinions
Editorial
Suspension of learning is disastrous
THE decision of the 21 mayors to suspend opening of classes in their respective towns and cities, invoking the health and safety of their constituents as a priority may be providential. But their unilateral decision to suspend the start of classes also indicates how unprepared they are being the chief…
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Punchline
Suspension of classes, a wrong mistake
By Ermin Garcia Jr. WHY was I not surprised that Dagupan City Mayor Brian Lim was among the first to call for a suspension of the opening of classes for 20 days? The continuous surge in COVID-19 cases in the city government is hardly surprising in the first place.…
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General Admission
Leylah Fernandez budding tennis star
By Al S. Fernandez LEYLAH Fernandez is the latest budding tennis star to burst into the global stage with Filipino blood running in her veins. Let’s raise a glass. Even if Leylah lost last weekend’s championship showdown for the U.S. Open, the year’s grandest tennis event alongside the three…
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Random Thoughts
Start of election season
By Leonardo Micua BARELY less than two weeks from now and in the midst of the pandemic, prospective candidates will troop to the Comelec to file their respective certificates of candidacy to finally start off the election season. In the national scene, Senator Ping Lacson and his running mate Senate President…
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G Spot
Andromeda’s Vortex
Cowardice in numbers
By Atty. Farah G. Decano PRESIDENTIAL Spokesperson, Herminio “Harry” Roque, is currently being stripped down of whatever he has adorned himself with, by the constituency he is serving and by the very people he grew up with in the UP Community. He is, now, being lambasted, ridiculed and bashed…
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Sports Eye
Two new PH teenage tennis stars on the rise
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. IF you are really a sports lover, like me, you should know who is Leylah Fernandez and Alex Eala in the world of tennis. They are indubitably the latest Philippine teenage lawn tennis sensations and I believe that based on their latest performances, someday soon…
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Learnings in Life
Fight At First Sight
Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here's a story I read in www.moral-shortstory.blogspot.com that I'd like to share, something that we can all learn from. A MOTHER was very fond of her only son. When he married, she felt that he was more attached to his wife than…
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Feelings
No to the dot! (monosyllabic prose poem)
By Jing Villamil SUCH small soft hands. For such a small soft child. Flesh of my flesh, bones of my bones, blood of my blood. She brushed my curls way up and back. She smoothed the deep frowns. She poked wide the eyes, pinched the nose, stretched the lips…
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CAPITOL NEWS INAUGURATION OF 3 NEW BLDGS. Governor Amado "Pogi" I. Espino III, with the Provincial Liga ng mga Barangay President Jinky Zaplan and Sangguniang Kabataan President Jerome Vic Espino, leads the inauguration of the three newly-constructed buildings namely: Two-storey Multi-Purpose Building for Basic Sector, Provincial Youth Development Center, at…
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…
DUE to the unprecedented surge of COVID-19 in the province, Governor Amado Espino III, postponed the holding of the “Re-Introduction of Non-Contact Sports” program, a three sporting events tournament, indefinitely. The original kick-off date was August 27 at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center gymnasium in Lingayen. Governor Espino…
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