By Leonardo Micua   THE campaign period for candidates running for the local elections on May 9 finally kicked off last March 25. Under the law, local candidates have 45 days (except on Holy Thursday and Good Friday and on the eve of the elections) to campaign and argue their…

By Leonardo Micua   ON our way home to Bonuan Thursday afternoon, we passed by the holding garage of the Dagupan Bus on Arellano Street to see it finally opened, which could mean it might soon join the fleet of provincial buses now plying from Dagupan and Pangasinan to Cubao…

By Leonardo Micua   LAST week, Finnela Sim, regional coordinator of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC), tagged me along to Lingayen where she turned over 60 sports balls to the provincial government in line with the nationwide grassroots sports program on sports of PSC Chairman William “Butch” Ramirez. Ms. Sim,…

By Leonardo Micua   THE world is on edge because there is a man in eastern Europe who wants to enforce his will on all peace-loving nations in the whole world. With him on rampage, no nation feels safe as he may yet ignite a full-scale war in Europe that…

By Leonardo Micua   ONE of the bombshells that the city councilors of Dagupan discovered in their review of the proposed Annual investment Plan was the non-enrollment of the indigents for two straight years. This is a very serious matter that needs to be looked into as Mayor Brian Lim…

By Leonardo Micua   MANY of my colleagues in the print and broadcast media, the legit ones, have indicated they are not in conformity with the plan of the PNP to admit bloggers in the social media as members of the PNP Press Corps. They clarified they have no rancor…

By Leonardo Micua   THERE are persistent calls from the business sector for the IATF to downgrade the quarantine classification of Metro Manila and its surrounding areas to Alert Level 1, from Alert Level 2 due to the fast dwindling COVID-19 cases there. If that happens, isn’t it just logical…

By Leonardo Micua   LATEST data from the Provincial Health Office, and even from the City Health Office, shows  that Covid-19 is again on a downturn after surging at the start of the new year. If you look at it, it is the same trend that happened in the National…

By Leonardo Micua   FINALLY, Mayor Brian Lim closed the baratillo along Galvan Street that sealed the only entry way to CSI Market Square owned by the family of his political rival Belen Fernandez for months. If I’m not mistaken, it’s been there since early November and it had become…

By Leonardo Micua   NOW there is war between Dagupan City Hall and the Sangguniang Panlungsod because of the still unfinished 2022 annual city budget City hall claimed that because of politics, the SP sat on the budget for months and remained unacted up to these days. The SP through…