Environment as election issue FOR decades since postwar, election campaign issues, whether national or local, revolved mainly around corruption, peace and order, education, infrastructure development and poverty.  And still, for decades while discussions and debates on platforms were largely treated an essential component of the political circus, and were largely…

Religion and politics OUR new leader in the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese, Archbishop Socrates Villegas, has a large shoe to fill after his predecessor, Archbishop Oscar Cruz. Villegas, or Father Soc as he wants to be fondly called, recognizes and acknowledges this challenge. Cruz is known, not just in the province but…

Caution on Undas weekend HIS year’s observance of All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day will be particularly somber for those who will be visiting their loved ones who have just died from the recent flooding that swept over most parts of the province. We condole with them.  More than…

Panic reaction RAMPAGING waters that brought about floods as high as 12 feet high is terrifying. In the aftermath, with deaths and damages to property, livelihood and infrastructure that run up to as much as P10 billion, it would be understandable that our province would be thrown into panic. But…

Make San Roque Dam pay THE 10/9 deluge was irrefutably caused by the combination of a totally unexpected natural occurrence over which man had no control, and by a totally unexpected error in judgment that could have been clearly avoided. When Typhoon Pepeng lingered for days and hovered over extreme…