Hillary Clinton takes random poll here By Jun Velasco THERE was a time when movie actor James Dean – he with the signature sideburns, standing collar, cigarette in mouth -was the rage of the young here, there and everywhere. . That “idol” image created a cult, believed responsible for the…
Progressive Policy By Gonzalo Duque LET’S salute President GMA for her progressive policy on education and other programs of government that all of us hope would lead to the country’s unimpeded socio-economic national development. She has ok’d and is expected to preside over the summit meeting of the country’s top…
Playing with Fire
Three airports By Al S. Mendoza SUDDENLY, everybody seems to want an airport. Mayor Rey Velasco wants one in Sta. Barbara and Mayor Nani Braganza wants his in Alaminos City. Nani cites GMA as his No. 1 backer for his airport. GMA had publicly singled out Alaminos as the site…
General Admission
PhilRice was well worth the investment By Sosimo Ma. Pablico AS A PUBLIC R&D [research and development] investment, PhilRice [Philippine Rice Research Institute] was well worth it, according to a team of experts who made an external review of the Institute’s impact. Consisting of retired IRRI deputy director general Dr….
Harvest Time
“Destabilization” By +Oscar V. Cruz It is not a secret that according to the spirit of the times and in line with the changing mood of the people in the country, there are words and terms that become the season’s flavor of the mouth. This is exactly the case of…
Viewpoints
Drawn and hooked By Kristine Oineza I was born and raised in La Union but I, as I believe majority of us Ilocanos are, have strong Pangasinan links. My father is from Bani. I have an aunt from San Fabian and another from Natividad. We never really went on family…
Young Roots
Axe cycling coach By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. TWO weeks ago, one of our national cyclists came to me and handed me a duplicate copy of a petition letter signed by 12 out of the 17 nationals wanting to expel their head coach, Jommel Lorenzo, for many reasons. The letter…
Sports Eye
Babytalk (Part 2) By Emmanuelle First thing first. FEELINGS would like to express its appreciation for the calls, emails, and SMS from the regular readers of the hard copy and the webpage – Pangasinenses migrating to the nation’s thousands of islands, overseas Filipino workers in the Middle East and other…
Feelings
Kingsley Lewis 28 Jan 2008 Several weeks ago Sunday Punch had a piece complaining about the number of public holidays in the Philippines. Please follow this up with criticisms of: The announcement of new public holidays by politicians with little or no justification presumably because they think this…
Too many disruptive public holidays!
Ms. Ric 28 Jan 2008 How right you are Mr. Ceralde, every community has a neighborhood others wouldn’t dream of crossing or being caught in the dark at. In Edwin’s side of the state, all he has to do is cross Dumbarton Bridge and be in one of…