Dagupan’s 31-day fiesta for world record? By Ermin Garcia Jr. WHAT’S the Dagupan City government up to this time, declaring December 1-31, 2006 as fiesta month? Is celebrating the city fiesta already like observing anti-TB, breastfeeding, fire prevention, and other causes that the city needs to do it for a…
Bataoil: friendly but firm, uncompromising By Gerry Garcia CHIEF Police Supt. Leopoldo Bataoil was often on TV when he was police director in the Northern Police District under the NCR Police Office and fellow-Pangasinenses whom he had previously served as provincial director for some years watched proudly and wistfully. Gregarious…
Nards Galvez, father of campus journalism By Jun Velasco NOT much has been heard about the other great Filipino propagandist, Graciano Lopez Jaena, of Iloilo, who, like Jose Rizal and Marcelo H. del Pilar, set the stage for the evolution of a national, better still, a nationalist consciousness. Last week,…
Is Alvin clowning again? By Gonzalo Duque WITH the elections a foregone conclusion, expect the opposition to use every known trick of the trade to ensure victory with little thought for the country’s welfare. This fearful thought flashed across my mind when I came across a news item saying that…
You can bet on it: Another KO win for Pacquiao By Al S. Mendoza IMAGINE yourself as Manny Pacquiao. You are the country’s toast, almost now the darling of world boxing. Why because your fights the last five years or so have practically become big time. When you…
An interview with a three-term California Mayor-Dagupeño By Eva C. Visperas I watched ABS-CBN news on the victory of Mayor Jose Esteves in the US mid-term elections last Nov. 7. I felt proud. Everybody in Dagupan should, after all, the winner is a true-blue Dagupeño. So I tried my luck…
Better alternative to sun drying developed By Sosimo Ma. Pablico A better alternative to sun drying for small scale food processors has been developed by the BPRE (Bureau of Postharvest Research and Extension), which is based at the Science City of Munoz, Nueva Ecija. Called the MCSTD (multi-commodity solar tunnel…
Gambling in the republic By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. The present Administration has a long standing thesis: a gambling republic is a strong republic. Making addicts of legal gambling brings billions of pesos at the disposal of the national leadership. Exploiting the poor through illegal gambling rakes in billions…
Meeting Houston Fil-Am cyclists By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. HOUSTON, TEXAS – It’s now my second time in this state. The first time was in April, 1978, in the city of Pharr, my father’s hometown where I later migrated. But coming to the beautiful and big city of Houston is…
Lost in translation By Emmanuelle In Pangasinense, it translates to strictly mean abalang ed impangitalus. Literally, I guess it means aliwa so pakatalus. Loosely ag makatalus; tauntingly tangay-tangay. Exasperatedly, agaylay. Give this supply, haaay. Anyway, the title and the above introductory paragraph are beside the point. I wish to share…
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