Shooting down firecrackers IT’S frustrating to report at the beginning of each year about injuries arising from firecracker explosions during the New Year’s Eve celebration. Welcoming a New Year, just as in any celebration, is supposed to be an event for merriment, not an occasion for tragedy. But so many…

Resolution vs. corruption AS the Christmas holidays come to a close and we step into the New Year, we are actually going back, ‘going back to reality’ so to speak. And that is in fact the essence of New Year’s resolutions — going back to the year that just passed,…

New Year wish list WE bid goodbye to another year, thankful for everything good that was and learning from whatever unpleasantness there were. In welcoming the New Year, we make wishes for more goodness all around — in politics, the economy, social services, environmental protection, a better and sustainable quality…

Promise of Christmas CHRISTMAS, as we celebrate it in the Catholic faith, is the birth of a promise. It is the story of hope. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear. And the…

Wasted opportunity UGLY. This is how the occasion of President Benigno “P-Noy” Aquino III’s first official visit to Pangasinan turned out. All because local partisan politics got in the way of mature judgment.