TAYUG—In memory of her late husband who was a top police officer, a neophyte lady municipal councilor has donated a complete computer set with a printer to the local police. The donation was made by Councilor Patricia Velasco Cruz, wife of the late Senior Superintendent Igmedio Cruz, former deputy director…
Promises, Promises “It will be done.” These were the intense concluding words of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in her State of the Nation Address after mentioning that House Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr. and Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza have requested her to build an airport in the hometown of the…
The Bulldog and the Bull By Ermin Garcia Jr. I am personally elated on receiving the news that our columnist Gonz Duque was elected president of the prestigious Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities. Knowing him, he will not be one to stand idly and simply bask in the honor…
Maramba Blvd., still seedy By Gerry Garcia IT’S not from tradition that a newly elected mayor of a town or city draws the gall to change the face of the incumbent police chief he does not like. More often it is personal or political, to be more exact. And it…
Gonzalo’s odyssey By Jun Velasco ONE of the negative traits of Filipinos is their inability to accept defeat in a healthy and democratic contest. Take the case of the recent Speakership race. Congressman Pablo Garcia of Cebu unfailingly showed that he was a sore loser. His handlers like Bicol Congressman…
Manny Villar and JDV By Gonzalo Duque THIS column said it all before. I said: the opposition we have in this country can’t go but down… if they don’t change their nasty ways. At the rate most of their leaders are cutting each other’s throats, theirs is a sure prescription…
Listen Guv Spines By Al S. Mendoza “Listen, do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell…” The Beatles GUV Spines, as our Publisher-Editor loves to call Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr., has promised to be a “listening governor” of Pangasinan. I like that. You…
APPEAL TO NEW GUV—Rep. Victor Agbayani (2nd district, Pangasinan) appeals to Governor Amado Espino Jr. to build on what he has done in Pangasinan as governor for nine years instead of focusing on fault-finding which he deemed “imagined” than factual of the past provincial administration in a talk to newsmen…
The first “fetus within fetus” case By Eva C. Visperas It was the first case of a fetus within a fetus in the country and it happened to someone from Pangasinan. That report was enough to make this corner follow up on the story, and locate the “twins” and their…
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