By Leonardo Micua   THE intense summer heat in Pangasinan daily, not lower than 40 degrees Celsius, is indeed, taking a toll on the energy of most of our public official. They make excuses to take a break from their work and jet-set to colder countries on government time. First,…

By Leonardo Micua   WITH only a week before the Region 1 Athletic Association (R1AA) meet finally unfurls in San Carlos City on May 14 to 19, defending back-to-back champion Dagupan City, remains a doubtful starter. Dagupan athletes still doubt at this point whether they will have uniforms to wear…

By Leonardo Micua   WHILE Pangasinan sizzles with a heat index of 42 to 46 degrees celsius, among the highest if not the highest in the entire country, it is not good to hear that most, if not all, of the provincial board members, plus some department heads and special…

By Leonardo Micua   YOU must have noticed that the ongoing 2023 Dagupan Bangus Festival is being held and actually now about to reach its climax, without the usual baratillo and a food strip that were always seen in past editions of this yearly festivity. This time, Mayor Fernandez does…

By Leonardo Micua   FROM where I sit, I can only deduce that the majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod was working on another game plan when they forced a special session to be held last April 12 at past 4:00 p.m., to pass a new Annual Investment Program (AIP), to amend…

By Leonardo Micua   THE seven-man Sanggunian Panlungsod majority assumed the rule of an executioner by chopping off the heads of over 700 job order employees and denied hundreds of  frontliners of their monthly allowances, and literally grounding the public service in the city of Dagupan to a halt. For…

By Leonardo Micua   IT was a crying time at Dagupan City Hall up to 5:00 p.m. of March 31. There were 769 job order employees who bade goodbye to their work just three days after the seven majority councilors in the Sangguniang Panlungsod put the final nail to their “coffin”…

By Leonardo Micua   WHEN the SP majority banned journalists from covering the committee hearings on the 2023 annual budget of Dagupan, I had no choice but to watch the footage of the hearing  again via the Facebook page of Mayor Belen Fernandez to get an insight into that proceeding….

By Leonardo Micua   FRIDAY morning, I was still groggy and my eyes dreamy from lack of sleep after translating and editing the night before to beat our news deadline. With nothing in mind, I decided instead to write about Villasis, my hometown, where I traced my roots and visit…

By Leonardo Micua   FOLLOWING the brazen gun attack that killed Oriental Governor Roel Degamo and nine other persons inside his compound by determined hired killers, President BBM ordered the DILG and PNP to monitor election hot spots all over the country. It is because, apparently, it may have occurred…