Costly standoff BARELY a month and a half into their new terms of office, the executive and legislative branches of the Dagupan City government are already showing stark signs of a power struggle. Now there’s a standoff between the two sides, with Mayor Benjamin Lim at the helm of the…
Editorial
PSU steals thunder from private universities By Jun Velasco A casual chat with sixty-ish Vic Estira, Pangasinan State University president, just gave us a surprise of our life. From its 9,000 student population a couple of years back, the primary government institution of learning has just staged a whopping l8,000 students…
Think about it
Chito Samson sizzles THIS column suffered a funny typo last week. The word “hyphen” instead of the “–” was inserted between the words “self” and “serving.” Thanks to our most thoughtful Julie Ann Arrogante, on-line editor, who upon seeing the missing “–” called up a copyboy to “insert a hyphen” meaning a…
Playing with Fire
The law is good, but we need cash By Al S. Mendoza WE are actually a nation of laws. Sadly, we are also a nation of law-breakers. I cite this in the wake of a bill pending in the Senate. Funny, but if this law is approved, it will punish…
General Admission
“Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t” By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD Without the least intention of being offensive much less of expressing irreverence, the above quoted axiom is simply meant to emphatically drive home the truth about the present huge financial predicament of the present administration – in…
Viewpoints
Running smoothly By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. DESPITE the problems and obstacles that the organizers of the 2010 PRISAA-UCAAP Inter-Collegiate Basketball Championship are encountering, I believe the league is running smoothly and fine. This has been my observation since the start of the tourney on July 22 and up to…
Sports Eye
Talong at bagoong By Marifi Jara QUELIMANE, Mozambique—It’s not a case of LSS (last song syndrome), where the last song that you heard, usually not on purpose and merely picked up in passing or in the background somewhere, plays repeatedly in your head until you feel that you are going…
Roots
SHADES OF E.O. 464 A MEMORANDUM of Mayor Benjamin dated August 6, 2010 directing all department heads and staff not to attend regular or special sessions and committee meetings of the Sangguniang Panlungsod without his clearance was roundly criticized by the city council.
