COUNTER-RALLIES — Followers of defeated mayoralty candidate Ernesto Go and supporters of Mayor Emma Chan stage counter-rallies in front of the municipal hall on Monday as Chan began her three-year reign as mayor of Pozorrubio. Chan defeated Go by 134 votes but Go filed a protest case which the Regional…
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Birthdays/Anniversaries
Blood all over the land By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. There are countries that already conquered spaced, reached the moon and are even ready to go farther. It is already the age of e-commerce and cyber-education. Science and technology have already made big advances and are still looking forward…
Viewpoints
MOST OUTSTANDING ANEW–Senior Inspector Roque Sison, jail warden of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology of San Carlos City, stands before the city jail after being chosen nationwide anew as Jail Warden of the Year by the BJMP. The first time he bagged the award was in 2004 when…
MOST OUTSTANDING ANEW
Hope TOMORROW’S otherwise routine Monday morning flag ceremony in town and city halls will be special. July 2 marks the beginning of the term of office of the local government officials who won the people’s confidence and approval in the mid-term election last May 14. Majority of the mayors are…
Editorial
Another good news, bad news! By Ermin Garcia Jr. First the good news. Dagupan City Administrator Raffy Baraan is finally out! Now, the bad news – the new provincial administrator is Raffy Baraan! You have to hand it to the guy. While other government appointees now out of job would…
Punchline
Final homecoming for Pinoy Armboy By Gerry Garcia PANGASINENSES have every reason to be proud like the bereaved parents themselves over the military honors the Iraq-based US Infantry Regiment gave a Fil-Am soldier during his recent burial at a Catholic cemetery in Lingayen. The late Fil-American, 25, happened to be…
Here and There
Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez blends talent and service By Jun Velasco A NEW set of officials under the presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has just taken their oaths of office. Many of us don’t give a damn any more, courtesy of the kind of do-nothing and corrupt officials we have…
Think about it
Go for it, Guv’nor Spines! By Gonzalo Duque I HAVE addressed him Guv’nor Spines – without the “elect” anymore— because by the time you are reading this, our new governor, small but terrible Amado “Spines” Espino would already have taken his oath as Pangasinan governor. Hooray, Spines, congrats, again! Also,…
Playing with Fire
If I were Spines By Al S. Mendoza FROM General to Congressman to Governor. That’s Amado T. Espino, a.k.a. Spines. Spines was the former provincial commander of Pangasinan before he became congressman of my beloved Second District where I had been voting since Cory’s reign. A two-term congressman beginning 2001,…