A patriarch’s dream, a grandson’s mission By Rex Catubig IT’S symbolic that the remnant of the Oriental Hotel’s facade is now overgrown with weeds and shrubbery and boarded up with galvanized sheets. As if to hide from public scrutiny, the bygone life it harbors. What stories does it keep…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. AFTE the suspension of epaLiFe Councilors Red Erfe-Mejia, Alfie Fernandez and Irene Lim-Acosta 4 weeks ago, the remaining four: Councilors Dada Reyna-Macalanda, Celia Lim, Alvin Coquia and Marilou Fernandez, can very well be suspended by either the Office of the President or the Ombudsman for…
By Gonzalo Duque THE latest action of the Makabayan and Akbayan groups for the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte has now been nipped in the bud. The groups know that an impeachment proceeding is next to impossible for lack of time. With the forthcoming elections, any move to impeach…
By Leonardo Micua THIS is my take on the misplaced taunting by the political opposition – why Dagupan City again missed the boat in this year’s Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) award. They said all LGUs in Pangasinan earned the prestigious recognition and only Dagupan under the watch of Belen…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo STEPPING into the bathtub, she notices her body, her hands, her feet, as they moved, depending on her will. She touches her face, her neck, her breasts. There’s a difference now, she realizes. There was a time when she didn’t mind about specific parts of…
By Farah G. Decano LOOKS like Vice President Sara Z. Duterte has gotten herself a formidable support from the bloc-voting Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC). The INC did not merely release a statement of opposition against her supposed impeachment. Rather, the INC issued a threat of nationwide rallies. Thirteen years…
By Eva C. Visperas I made my way down a long, narrow road to witness the much-anticipated inauguration of the 90-meter hanging bridge in Barangay Lipit Sur, Manaoag on November 29. The new steel-and-concrete bridge connects Lipit Sur with Pugaro, which are separated by a river that had long…
By Rex Catubig IT has sat there for years: a box building or what remains of it—having rectangular portals with flat apex, the sides indented with draped corners. In earlier days, big backhoes and other heavy machinery stood on the side like sentinels watching over a mausoleum. Now, it…
By Ermin Garcia Jr THOSE who still don’t appreciate or understand how important Pangasinan is in the realm of voting power, let the recent images of the presence of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte in Pangasinan wooing voters for the 2025 mid-term election tell you…
By Gonzalo Duque FOLLOWING the recent concern expressed by no less than President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. about the hearings going on in the House of Representatives that seemed to be leading to the eventual impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte, the probe is now likely to be stopped because it…
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