Not campaign season yet, but… IT’S still more than half a year to go, seven and a half months to be more precise, before the May 2013 midterm election, but last week already felt like election season everywhere in the country, including of course here in vote-rich Pangasinan, as aspiring…

Find the forger WHATEVER happened to the supposed investigation by the mayor’s office on what it claimed to be falsified waivers with forged signatures of Mayor Benjamin Lim? These documents, numbering almost 100, were used by occupants of illegal structures in Tondaligan Park and at the foreshore land of Sitio…

Who’s paying for the fiesta? IT has been said that everyday, you can be sure there is at least one fiesta being celebrated somewhere in the Philippines. It could be the grand provincial- or city-wide kind of bash, which are even endorsed by the Department of Tourism as among the…

Not taking the gamble DAGUPAN’S Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) bears watching on how it will decide on a business enterprise’s application for a franchise to operate online gambling in the city. Considering the extent of illegal gambling in the city – with jueteng cum jai-alai (jai-teng), drop-ball, and hataw thriving in many…

Participatory governance, western-style LOOK west. Four local government units on this side of Pangasinan – Alaminos City and the municipalities of Bani, Burgos and Dasol – are leading the way in true participatory governance with help from development organization La Liga Policy Institute under the Empowerment of the Poor Program of…