A CASUAL road trip to neighboring province La Union, through the main highway from Pangasinan via Damortis in La Union will quickly make Pangasinan traveler wonder -what is it that makes La Union strictly implement and enforce campaign rules that Pangasinan can’t seem to do at all? Traveling from any…

WHO’S minding the store when nobody’s looking? The campaign fever for the local elections is heating up with little or no concern about consequences from complete disregard of minimum health protocols. Hundreds of color-coded uniformed teams of local candidates are seen scouring communities handing out flyers, competing for space for…

NOW that the local campaign has officially started, it’ time to get down to brass tacks. While we are holding the national and local elections simultaneously, the election that truly matters is the local elections. It is their results that will immediately impact on our communities’ and families’ lives. In…

AFTER two years of difficulties finding ways to reach relatives from both sides, Pangasinan and Metro Manila, in the least expensive and readily available transport between the two points since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, families today are finally able to plan and travel with ease on board buses with…

WITH still 12 days before the official campaign period for local elections, our communities are already riddled with posters. They are glued on walls, tied around electric posts, hung on cable wires and nailed to trees. And because there are no rules regulating use of posters until campaign officially starts,…

THE official campaign period for local elections starts this week. This means noise pollution and tons of clutter of tarpaulin and paper posters will abound in our communities by both local and national candidates. These are to be expected. But beyond what are expected to be dumped on voters by…

THOSE who braved EDSA in 1986 were there for varied reasons.  And for people who were not there, they mostly wondered what the ”People Power Revolution” was really all about. Why did it happen? Was just about the only common question. It’s the same question being asked even today by…

HERE we go again. Pangasinan’s political activities possibly revolving around the Commission on Elections’ say-so, scare tactics and little else, again. Over the years, Comelec always warned and threatened candidates and voters about vote-buying, illegal postering and promotion activities, etc. as criminal and prohibited acts under the Omnibus Election code…

THE race for the country’s top national posts is on! Between choosing from the 10 names for president, 9 for vice president and 64 for senators, and at the receiving end of the barrage of PR and propaganda in mainstream media and the disinformation and fake news being dished out…

THE official campaign period for the 2022 elections starts this week.  And to see it take off is fraught with fears not only of renewed violence between political camps in the province, in districts and towns and cities but of widespread violation of Covid health protocols by the candidates abetted…