VICE Mayor Belen Fernandez has assured the Dagupeno community in Southern California that she will sustain the gains she and former mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. achieved and vowed to work with the present leadership despite their political differences. “I have said time and again that I can work with anyone,” the…
Accountability for the pork barrel BELIEVE it or not, the pork barrel — P70 million for each congressional representative and P200 million for each senator — is intended, really, for a good cause. That is hard to believe now because of the notoriety that the pork, or the Priority Development…
Better days ahead? By Ermin Garcia Jr. IF the first days of Dagupan Mayor Benjie Lim are any indication, the city may, indeed, be headed for better days ahead. The city streets are cleaner and the usual endless chaotic scene fronting the Malimgas Market is seeing some semblance of order…
Top Pangasinenses in US honored By Jun Velasco ALREADY, the sunny skies that welcomed Noynoy’s ascent to the Presidency is getting stormy. We need not be unsettled though as this could be due to what they call birth pains. As we posited here earlier, Noynoy won’t be surprised because his own Liberal Party…
“Dagukan City” and “Sangganoang Panlungsod” By Gonzalo Duque WE don’t like what’s starting to boil at the Dagupan City Council — or better still, Sangganoang Panlungsod (SB). We are not exactly swallowing hook, line and sinker what neophyte Councilors Brian Lim and Red Mejia told us in a chance encounter at…
This early, P-Noy fumbling bodes ill to the nation By Al S. Mendoza EARLY in the day, P-Noy is fumbling? I guess, he is. He recalled his very first memo on terminating all non-career government employees by June 30, the day he was sworn in as the nation’s 15th president….
Zero Tolerance By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD IT is worthwhile looking into the significance and connotation of the phrase “Zero Tolerance” because this is the objective and substantive equivalent of the battle cry of the Aquino Administration categorically against graft and corrupt practices especially in the government he inherited. It…
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