The three who dared By Ermin Garcia Jr. A SECOND open-and-shut-case against Dagupan Mayor Benjie Lim was filed before the Ombudsman for violating the country’s anti-corruption law by the tireless anti-corruption advocate, Leo Angeles, with a difference. This time City Administrator Vlad Mata is caught in the net as well….
Hidden jewel of San Fabian’s hills By Jun Velasco “Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults,” Antisthenes OVER the weekend, Democratic Party’s Barack Obama edged out who Gonzalo Duque analyzed was the leading presidential contender, Republican bet Gov. Mitt Romney. How come? Because America’s most charismatic politician ever, Bill…
Durable US-based friends By Gonzalo Duque WE wish to congratulate the new officers of Friends USA, a US-based association of Dagupenos, who had their induction rites last September 2. It was great fun. It’s like they were all having a jam session of the 60’s. This happy bunch made us…
Salt business knocking on Guv’s doorstep By Al S. Mendoza I think it was late last year when Euclid G. Forbes went to Lingayen to meet up with Raffy Baraan. For my unabashed love for Pangasinan, I had arranged that meeting. I was supposed to join that meeting but I…
Dagupan, hello? By Bebot Villar NAGPAKITANG gilas ang bagong regional director ng Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Region 1 na si Col. Roybel Sanchez sa pagkaka aresto ng dalawang babaeng drug couriers from Pasay City. September 4 nang mangyari ang one of the biggest drug haul sa isang buy-bust operation…
Verticalist Preachers By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD THE very words “verticalism” and horizontalism” readily evoke radicalism such that one automatically excludes the other. Just as what is verticalist necessarily excludes that which is horizontal, so too what is horizontalist ipso facto does away with anything vertical. Both terms – with…
Alibis and finger-pointing By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. IF you read my column in the August 19-25 issue, I asserted then that our national sports leaders will surely make some alibis ending up finger-pointing on who’s supposed to be blamed for the below-par performance of our national athletes in the…
Impambaroy ed Luyag na Panay Nen Santiago Villafania MABETBET no onkaili ak ed sakey e lugar ono pasen, saray sumusulat tan umaanlong so uunaen kon pakabatan. Tan dia’d impanwaywayak ya agano ed Iloilo tan Capiz dia’d luyag na Panay nen imbeneg a bulan na Agosto akapituyawan ko ira di Luis…
Clothing revolution By Johanne Margarette R. Macob THERE are different ways to convey one’s identity – traditions, beliefs, language, and clothing are some. Clothing bares the fantasy within one’s psyche while it fends one’s body, expressing what one wants as well as what one doesn’t like. And most, if…
ANOTHER CASE FOR THE OMBUDSMAN A SECOND case has been filed against Dagupan Mayor Benjamin Lim and the first against City Administrator Vladimir Mata before the Ombudsman for violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act. This time it’s in relation to the alleged misuse of calamity funds in 2010.
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