By Leonardo Micua   SO, the gunman in the slaying of hard-hitting broadcaster Percy Lapid whose real name is Percy Mabasa, surrendered to the police after being bothered by his conscience. But the alleged middleman from the National Bilibid Prison implicated by the confessed gunman was found to have already…

By Leonardo Micua   WHEN the Dagupan City council had Attys. Reggie Ravanzo, Conrado Guadiz, Jimmy Arzadon, Dr. Alfredo Sta. Maria and yes, Pedro Torio and Pepito Calimlim as councilors, newsmen always looked forward in covering the Sangguniang Panlungsod. They talked sense, argued and debated on the floor as statesmen…

By Leonardo Micua   WE are glad that LTFRB Region 1 swiftly acted on the case of overcharging by one jeepney driver plying the San Fabian to Dagupan route. We heard the driver was charging P50 per passenger and when the passengers protested, the driver angrily shouted at them as if…

By Leonardo Micua   PANGASINAN and Dagupan City may have been spared by the wrath of Typhoon “Karding”, but our neighboring provinces in Central Luzon up to Calabarzon were not. An example is Nueva Ecija, the undisputed rice granary of the Philippines and today’s largest rice producer in PH, with Isabela…

By Leonardo Micua   THOSE who are not concerned about the disappearance of Coca-Cola and its allied products in the shelves of supermarkets and sari-sari stores, we would like to announce we do and it matters to us. This even if we are not a drinker of Coke nor a…

By Leonardo Micua   A deeper and thorough study by government experts is really needed to determine the cause of our flooding in Dagupan City due mostly to tidal flooding and to extreme meteorological factors that cause many rivers to overflow their banks. This is because of the nagging suspicion in…

By Leonardo Micua   NOW it is becoming clearer that there were “flying scholars”, and worst, “ghost scholars” during the past Dagupan City administration, no different from the flying voters that managed to register and vote during the last election. The “flying scholars” were non-residents of Dagupan who were granted…

By Leonardo Micua   OUR province, Pangasinan, derived it name from the world “asin” or salt. Because of this, I could hardly believe that we are already running out of salt and, worse, could no longer supply partly the needs of the whole nation. We used to produce a lot…

By Leonardo Micua IF it’s true that lawmen had been doing a surveillance on the tentacles of a syndicate involved in the P2.5 billion shabu two or three months before it was busted in Pozorrubio on August 12, then such illegal activity could have been in business at the site even…

By Leonardo Micua   IT is understandable that in the exercise of our practice as journalists there are a number of our news subjects who are sensitive to negative reports and criticisms and would do all to discredit us – shoot us. But still many others who are true public…