By Leonardo Micua   HERE’S a big cause for alarm for all of us. A report from PDEA that bigger volume of illegal drugs, particularly shabu, have been entering Pangasinan since the start of the year. In fact, we consider this report as more factual and alarming than what former…

By Leonardo Micua   WALK, don’t ride. This may yet be the advice today for anyone to get past the vehicle gridlocks hugging our major and even interior roads now that contractors undertaking flood mitigation projects in Dagupan have accelerated the pace of their work so that they can beat…

By Leonardo Micua   IF there’s one project that many of our present generation would love  to see operating soon, that would be the proposed Tri-City Ferry System that will provide an alternative and faster means of transport for residents of the three coastal cities- Alaminos, Dagupan and San Fernando…

By Leonardo  Micua   OUR photo journalist Butch Uka reported to me what appeared to him as widespread theft of steel manhole covers in Barangay Tapuac in Dagupan City by still unknown persons. I told him this is no longer news today as it happened in any other city administration many…

By Leonardo Micua   IT doesn’t take one to study law to understand what members of the majority of the Sangguniang Panlungsod are doing to the employees of the Dagupan City government when the majority bloc said they would be violating the subjudice rule of the court if they pass…

By Leonardo Micua   WHAT we wrote in this corner a week past turned out to be true.  Insisting that the Appropriations Ordinance that enacted the P1.3 billion annual city budget was not validly passed, the majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod went to Court to question the manner of its passage….

By Leonardo Micua   BEFORE we delve into issues, I wish my readers Merry Christmas and Prosperous New Year. We are puzzled why many still sport squirming and sad faces. Could it be because of the side comment of Jay Mendoza, manager of Sonshine Radio Dagupan, during his interview with…

By Leonardo Micua   WE were appalled at the audacity by which some individuals misrepresent high officials of the government and hoodwink their victims for easy money, using only their constant companions —their smartphones. One such person introduced himself in a conversation with local government officials as the secretary of the…

By Leonardo Micua   TWO persons, two different strokes. These could be the reason, to my mind, why Pangasinan failed to bag this year’s Seal of  Good Local Governance  (SGLG) because Governor Mon-Mon Guico works differently from former Governor Pogi Espino, or even the Governor before him, his father, Amado…

By Leonardo Micua   WHILE the Israel-Hamas War is still raging with just brief lull of fighting because of a four-day ceasefire, and the Russia-Ukraine War is now entering almost on its second year on February 24, 2024, both at the cost of thousands of human lives, another potential global pandemic…