Willing but weak IT used to be that parents themselves would discourage their children from going to school on the first few days of the start of classes because they knew that no classroom learning would actually take place anyway because the kids would be tasked with housecleaning after the…

Cleaning up Dagupan   OF the 48 mayors-elect in the 44 towns and four cities in the province, Dagupan’s Belen Fernandez is facing the most unenviable position. To begin with, unlike the other mayoralty victors in the May 13 elections who will officially assume their renewed or new posts on…

Not just school supplies   THE election dust has settled and the admirable Brigada Eskwela volunteers have been mobilized for the coming opening of classes to repair, clean, and give a bit of a doll-up to the public schools around the province, which are surely a little extra messy this…

Transparency   INFORMING the people on matters that affect civil order and government service is a duty of public officials, especially those in elected positions. This is what transparency is about. The media’s role in a democracy as the fourth estate is to ensure that issues concerning the public are…

A test HOWLS of protest were raised by local officials when it was first announced by authorities that Pangasinan is included in the list of areas of concern for the May election. The Commission on Elections provincial office initially tried to appease the objection, explaining that the police and the…