By Leonardo Micua   IF Dagupan City is still without a new budget, Mayor Brian Lim has no one to blame but himself and his staff for taking their sweet time first in completing all the requirements needed to have the annual city budget approved. Neither can he put the…

By Leonado Micua IN this age of fake news, it is necessary that we fact check some of the information that we are getting especially if it is from a doubtful source in the social media which is now obviously being used conveniently by some evil minds as medium to…

By Leonardo Micua   THE city of Dagupan may not afford to send a disaster response team to any of the calamity-stricken areas in the Visayas or Mindanao like what Mayor Isko Moreno did only  a few days ago, but the city can certainly afford to share a bit of…

By Leoanrdo Micua   TOO bad, Typhoon Odette came just after Mayor Brian Lim was promised by President Duterte to extend financial assistance for the construction of a hospital in Dagupan. Methinks that with the big swath of destruction left by the typhoon in some parts of the Visayas and…

By Leonardo Micua   THE withdrawal of President Duterte from the senatorial race, just a few minutes after his long time aide Senator Christopher Lawrence Go, made good on his earlier promise to back out from the presidential race, did not surprise us at all. From the very beginning, we viewed…

By Leonardo Micua   THE announcement of the Dagupan City Historical Cultural and Arts Commission before the Sangguniang Panlungsod that only limited activities are being prepared for the city fiesta this year is saddening for fiesta lovers. With only few days before the fiesta on December 27, we have yet…

By Leonardo Micua   UP to this writing, Senator Bong Go has not gone to the Comelec to sign and file an instrument of withdrawal despite his pronouncement on Bonifacio Day that he is backing out from the presidential race. And up to this time, his supporters are still  hoping…

By Leonardo Micua   ALTHOUGH COVID-19 cases in the country, including Pangasinan, have dropped significantly based on figures from the Department of Health, there should be no room for complacency among us knowing that the disease can still resurge like what’s happening in Europe and other parts of the world….

By Leonardo Micua   THERE’S a big trouble brewing in the administration party, PDP Laban, with the sudden withdrawal of presidential aspirant Ronald “Bato” de la Rosa and his instant substitution by Senator Bong Go, who is running for president under another new political party, and the last-minute decision of President Rodrigo Duterte to run for…

By Leonardo Micua   WERE it not for the memorandum of Governor Amado Espino III dated November 9, 2021 uploaded on Facebook, many of us might not have remembered that last November 13 was a red-letter day in Pangasinan, being the 125th birthday of one of the illustrious sons of…