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EDITORIAL
Ban plastics now PAGING all sanggunian bodies in Pangasinan. Climate change is upon us and it’s bad enough that our local governments have not established nor adopted mitigating measures to minimize its deathly impact on communities. Worse, our local governments continue to maintain open dumpsites in the province. Neither do we see a discipline in […]
Punchline
Restore Oplan Tokhang here By Ermin Garcia Jr. IT is encouraging to see P/Colonel Redrico Maranan, acting PNP provincial director, moving deliberately and surely on the war on drugs in Pangasinan. His surprise order for PNP personnel from the town to the provincial level to take drug tests was in fact long overdue at the […]
Playing with Fire
Treating a thin senior citizen badly By Gonzalo Duque SINCE I lost weight last year, I thought all the time that it is an advantage to have conquered the scales and be seen as young and blooming again, but getting thinner also has its own disadvantages. This was my experience in Mangaldan during the concert of […]
General Admission
Fake as the ‘branded’ in Greenhills By Al S. Mendoza THIEVERY in government happens because of crooks it endlessly harbors. Crooks come in many forms. They are heads of agencies or any branch of government. They are government employees from the top down to the rank-and-file. They know the law like the palm of their […]
G Spot
The past and the volatile current By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – Great Gatsby SOME try to recapture the past especially if it brings back memories of love, especially love that was interrupted in between. Some want to recapture it to right […]
Feelings
Dancing with my darling By Jing Villamil THIS story was passed down three generations. She did not know what woke her. It must have been the whoosh of the wind from the open windows, the swishing of the silk curtains, or just old floors creaking. Whatever . . . from the depth of sleep she […]
Sports Eye
Warriors refuse to die in Game 5 By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. “ALL points are important to me from the first to the last even though I’m losing, I’m never going to let go,” said half-Filipina, half-Ecuadorian Leylah Annie Fernandez after winning the French Open junior girls championship in Paris last weekend. And that’s exactly […]