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…
By Leonardo Micua THE series of legal setbacks suffered by the opposition councilors of Dagupan City could mean that justice and reason are not on their side in their continuing efforts to undermine the administration of Mayor Belen Fernandez. It started on January 12, 2024 when the Regional Trial Court…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo A good friend, art curator Bina Sarkar Elias, requested me to participate with a short 6-8 lines poem on women’s empowerment for an art show she will be curating entitled “Free, Fearless & Fantastical!” scheduled for the Pen + Brush Gallery in New York (Jan….
By Farah G. Decano THEY say that Philippine politics on the national scene is high level. In the academic sense, high-level politics tackle issues about international relations and national security. This concept, however, has earned a new connotation in our country to mean the involvement of powerful and influential…
By Eva C. Visperas IT had been a long time since we last spoke to Engr. Rosendo “Sendong” So, chairman of the homegrown Abono Partylist. For years, Rosendo has been a media fixture, always available to discuss anything related to agriculture. His commitment to the sector was evident during…
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