If you can kiss and touch in public why can’t people do the same inside bars and night clubs? This was the question posed by the Club Owners Association of Dagupan City (COAD) in reaction to Draft Ordinance Number 0-332 in the city council entitled: “Providing for supplementary Measures against…
ALAMINOS CITY – “Hot meats” have no place here. This is the iron-clad guarantee of the city government even as it warned unscrupulous traders of “hot meat” that their products will never be sold in the city as evidenced by the recent confiscation of 1,355 kilos of undocumented chicken meat…
The worst is yet to come The unprecedented proceedings in the House of Representatives seeking to convene a Constituent Assembly can only be described as a high-handed attempt at muzzling not only the legitimate voices of dissent and opposition but the aspirations of our people for a morally upright government…
How ‘constructive graft’ operates By Ermin Garcia Jr. If you want to have an idea how “constructive graft” in the city government of Dagupan can be detected, then watch closely how the series of cover-up is being managed to protect the secret transaction between the office of the city mayor…
Brief reminiscences of the good old days By Gerry Garcia DECEMBER 8, Friday, Immaculate Virgin Mary feast day, also marked the day when the sudden unholy massive bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japanese planes took place in 1941… 56 years ago. We were teeners then in high school at the…
National cleansing By Jun Velasco BY the time this paper was out, the political smoke would have cleared up a bit, let’s hope, from the most confusing suspense we Filipinos are going through. From the haze and maze, from the tumult, we expect a nation cleansed, rising from the ruins…
Ani is in Dagupan. Don’t say ‘naani la!’ By Gonzalo Duque THE following is a medya medya lang affair, the lighter side. I was watching USA TV of Belen Fernandez one evening, and I almost fell on the floor when I saw the regular coverage of the Sanggunian Panlungsod session,…
Rules of life By Al S. Mendoza BAGUIO CITY–The weather here is at its finest this time of year. Cool but not nippy. Warm but not hot when directly under the sun. Nice feeling when close to your loved one. Especially in the evening, when a warm body becomes your…
Bigger and more exciting Talong Festival By Eva C. Visperas Mention talong (eggplant) and Villasis town in the eastern part of Pangasinan easily comes to mind. That’s the fruit of the town’s successful first Talong Festival last year. Next year, local folks will experience a mini Rio De Janeiro Street…
Custom service for farm mechanization gains headway By Sosimo Ma. Pablico Small rice farmers may not need to buy farm machines after all provided custom service for farm mechanization is available, as shown by the initial experiences in a pilot project of PhilRice (Philippine Rice Research Institute) in the Science…
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