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…

By Leonardo Micua   APROPOS to my item last week, officials of Pangasinan and Dagupan City must now realize that we have long been left out by our neighbors in the Ilocos and the Cordilleras of the convenience of having direct link via public transportation to Metro Manila from Pangasinan….

By Leonardo Micua   NOW that the Philippines is finally rated a low risk area for COVID-19 by the Department of Health, methinks it’s time our local officials again to press for the resumption of public transportation from Pangasinan to Cubao and vice versa if they really care for the…

By Leonardo Micua   AFTER almost two years with the pandemic, the light at the end of the  tunnel that we all dreamt to see might be too near but yet too far for all of us. What of the newly emerged Sub-Delta variant already detected in Russia and Israel…

By Leonardo Micua   AS I was writing this piece, it was the fourth day of the flood in Dagupan, the highest flood the city ever seen for four days despite the fact that Typhoon Maring had already left the country days earlier. It didn’t surprise anyone to see some…