IN early July 2022, seven Dagupan City councilors who comprise the new majority, marched inside the Sangguniang Panlungsod hall, their heads high, unabashedly paraded themselves as the bright, well-informed, competent members of the LiFe political team.  They even made certain that they were properly identified and seen wearing their blue…

THE Dagupan City government is finally back on its feet, but not how it wanted. Having to work with a reenacted 2022 budget is the only alternative left for the Belen Fernandez administration from where it is expected to pick up the pieces from the chaos created by the political…

TODAY’S Catholic laity are of the belief that celebrating Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ, is the most significant religious observance.  We have 15-45 days season of celebration marked by colorful lights, gift-giving topped off by unrivalled commercialism in all malls, restaurants and stores immortalized by the image of a…

THROUGHOUT the month of March when the world observed it to honor women in our lives and in our country, much about successful endeavors of women were said and attributed to women’s gender equality and empowerment. Women who distinguished in their chosen fields, particularly in male-dominated sectors were celebrated and…

DAGUPEÑOS have seen and heard enough of the diabolical plotting of the Dagupan City councilors in the majority, and inability of the executive to stop them. Bereft of any semblance of civility and respect for the law, the members of the Committee on Finance, Budget and Appropriations, namely, Councilors Redford…

THE rash of assassinations of public officials this year is enough to make people wonder if our law enforcement and justice agencies, namely, the Department of Justice and the Philippine National Police, National Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Jail and Management, Philippine Drug Agency authority, etc. are losing the battle…

IT is bad enough that Pangasinan has a governor in Mr. Ramon Guico III who has assumed a muted governance policy never before witnessed in the province since the 60s! The situation for Pangasinenses is aggravated when the provincial board members have shown willingness to merely do as the governor…

THE move of the Alaminos City government to pass and enforce its “Discipline Zone’ ordinance is not only timely but provides a direction that the Sangguniang Panlalawigan should consider adopting as a provincial ordinance to be passed and enforced in all towns and cities. The ordinance hits the core of…

THE members of the majority at the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod have lost all sense of reality, shame, and civility when they believed they could turn facts into fiction by deleting accounts and minutes of the proceedings of a regular session, like these never happened. The totally unexpected move of the…