FINALLY, A CURFEW! — The imposition of curfew hours for minors in Dagupan City ahead of many other cities in the country, invoking a long standing ordinance enacted way back in 2003, is certainly a welcome move. It is a step closer towards attaining the grander plan to clear the…

GRACIOUS IN DEFEAT, NOT THREATENING. Some people are so heartless. They invent stories in a bid to further pull down a defeated. Bagsak na nga, tinatadyakan pa lalo. I woke up Friday morning reading a message from a neophyte elected municipal councilor of Mapandan town about lies spread against former…

DISCIPLINING FOUNTAIN-MAKERS –Sometimes you have to do the extreme to show you’re determined to make change. That’s exactly what this elected official in western part of Pangasinan did to end the era of “siga” and “balasubas” in a town where he once ruled as mayor. A little blast from the…

SIMPLE, HUMBLE MAN – All are equal when casting one’s vote, according to former Fifth District Rep. Mark Cojuangco, after waiting for almost three hours before he could cast his vote due to the long queue. To experience what people go through, he said he patiently waited for a hundred…

PEACE MAN! We saw the worst campaign so far for the May 9, 2016 elections. In media alone, attacks against the practitioners were so vicious, too personal. It was no longer candidates versus candidates but media versus media. Even among kumpadres and kumadres, no one was spared, relationships forgotten, long-time…

RAMPANT VOTE-BUYING. Many Pangasinenses are considered lucky because of the reported rampant vote-buying by politicians in many villages of Pangasinan, unchecked by the Comelec to this day. Vote-buying is already being done openly, in broad daylight in many places, including in one gasoline station in a town adjacent to Dagupan. That…

WHO NEEDS COMELEC CONTROL? The knee-jerk proposal of two politicians asking two towns in Pangasinan to be placed under Comelec control could be sending wrong signal to the people that there is a state of lawlessness in these towns–Urbiztondo and Bayambang. I asked my friend from Urbiztondo, Ricky, if lawlessness…

SEX OBJECTS IN ASINGAN. There was a loud uproar and protest from the women sector against the bikini open competition recently held in Asingan town. Photos of men and women who are romping the stage practically in their birthday suits were circulated in social media. No, it was not about…

RESPECT FOR THE FLAG. No more tattered flag in Malasiqui. Hooray! I saw this last week when I drove to the area fronting the municipal hall and saw the change in the flag hoisted at the flagpole. Thank you Mr. Mayor, for heeding our call in this section. We hope…

NO DRYING FACILITIES FOR SMALL FARMERS. We went around Pangasinan recently and the familiar sight we saw along the road were bags of palay being unloaded by farmers to be dried on the newly paved roads that are supposed to be for motor vehicles only. This sight seemed to indicate that farmers…