Gov’t’s dubious ‘recovery’ of stolen wealth By Gerry Garcia WE’RE well past 2006, three years dating back to the “doubtful” 2004 presidential elections which had caused PGMA’s unabated bashing by the Opposition. She had, they say, cheated her way to the presidency and beaten the hapless but immensely popular…
Rachel Arenas is it? By Jun Velasco First we change the system, then we are changed by the system.—Anon. WITH the 2007 elections a done deal (Speaker JdV said so), the familiar faces we see during the elections are fast resurrecting day by day. In Pangasinan, those of exciting interest…
Clown-cil of leaders By Gonzalo Duque NANDYAN na naman sila, yong mga walang inaatupag kundi siraan nang siraan ang ating mahal na Pangulo. They have accused and convicted her publicly of everything, as criminal, thief, corrupt, ano pa ba? Lahat na! But where are they now? And what has happened…
Who’s afraid of Ate Glue? By Al S. Mendoza NERO LAUGHED watching Rome burned. That was in the olden times. Who was Nero? He was then the power-mad ruler of the Roman Empire. He was so drunk with power that he celebrated with maddening fury seeing Rome…
A peek into the update on Agno’s coal spill By Eva C. Visperas NICK Melecio, an acknowledged environmentalist and a consultant of many (not sure of exact number) companies, offices on environmental matters, went on air at Orly Navarro’s Super Radyo program Friday morning. I had to cut short…
Dagupan as a model for Pangasinan Last week, the city government of Dagupan was fortunate to have been chosen as one among five Asian cities to receive a P5.5 million grant from the United States Agency for International Development to fund its Program for Hydro-Meteorological Risk Mitigation in Secondary Cities…
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crackdown vs outspoken priests “Arrest me? Please, I do not deserve it—yet!” This was Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz’s reaction in the wake of reports that Cruz, together with three other bishops in the country, is in the “order of battle”. Cruz, a vocal critic of the Arroyo administration, said in…
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