By Ermin Garcia Jr.   SEEING how hectic preparations were being made for yesterday’s series of miting de abanse by candidates, I wonder how many cared to remember to prepare for the celebration of Mother’s Day today, May 8, which in my book is one of the most important days…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.    ALLOW me to share names of wannabe senators who I know will make a difference for us given their track records. Of course, Alan Cayetano (14)! For good governance, livelihood and education. Consider: Harry Roque (54) for justice, international, domestic laws. Minguita Padilla (48) for…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   JUST when we thought the worst was over for our families that have been long separated by the pandemic after the IATF rescinded its resolution that required provincial buses operating in the region to use North Luzon Express Terminal (NLET) in Bocaue, here comes a…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE filing of the graft cases vs. Mayor Brian Lim and eight other city officials did not come as a surprise to many. Given how the city government was run since the Lim administration (and the barkada) took over, I knew it would only be…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   LAST week, I read another news report about the mandatory attendance in seminar on traffic rules and the subsequent written and driving tests required of applicants for new and renewal of driving licenses by the Land Transportation Office. Frankly, these new requirements only offer opportunities…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   DAGUPAN Mayor Brian Lim was dealt with an unforgettable lesson in politics that he never learned from his father, the politically astute Mayor BSL. He goes down in the city’s political history as the first (and hopefully the last) mayor that gave the city its…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   BELIEVE you me, God really works out worldly issues and concerns in His own time and in His own all-knowing ways. Take the overnight proliferation of illegal fish pens and oversized fish cages in the rivers of Dagupan City soon as Brian Lim became mayor….

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   AS I was looking forward to the installation and investiture of Dr. Voltaire Arzadon over the week, as the first president of Universidad de Dagupan, I recalled how I began working with the founders and presidents of the colleges in the early 70s long before…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THANK God, the provincial buses plying the Pangasinan-Metro Manila are back! The LTFRB finally announced that buses coming from the Ilocos Region, Cagayan Valley and the Cordillera Administrative Region “are likewise allowed to drop off passengers in North Luzon Express Terminal (NLET) where there are…

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   IT’S time the Pangasinan chapters of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, the Philippine National Police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency to collaborate and petition the Supreme Court to withdraw its rule allowing arrested drug suspects to avail of a plea bargaining agreement that…