By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo IMAGINATION, the capacity to create images or concepts that become palpable even in their absence, is the ally of those who wait incessantly for the situations they cherish. It is an indispensable friend, faithful to a fault, in the passage of time, where forgetting becomes…
By Farah G. Decano IN informal settings, I have generally introduced myself using my first name. I don’t flaunt my title because I prefer to be treated in the same way as others. I don’t even identify my car with a “lawyer” sticker or plate. It is just not…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. UNDENIABLY, the talk now in Philippines sports is the 31st Southeast Asia Games (SEAG) and the NBA Western and Eastern Conference Finals which are now in final stages. According to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the world sports sanctioning body, the SEAG was initially…
By Rex Catubig “I don’t like the memories because the tears come easily, and once again I break my promise to myself for this day. It’s a constant battle, a war between remembering and forgetting.” ~E.E. Cummings. Other than his family, my brother Louie had three great loves: politics,…
NOT AN ELECTION PROTEST A people’s initiative signed by 21,000 registered voters in Pangasinan seeking a manual recount of all the votes cast in Pangasinan during the May 9, 2021 elections was filed on May 16 before the Provincial Elections Office in Dagupan City. Clarifying that it is not an…
STUDENTS’ TRANSPORT – A group of high school students find the garong with a wide umbrella installed their convenient transport to bring them home to their barangay on a rainy afternoon. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
GOVERNOR Amado Espino III finally broke his silence a week after his loss in the May 9 elections, exhorting his supporters to help protect their sovereign rights as guaranteed by the Constitution. In a statement he issued, Espino said the election is not yet over amid the filing of a…
DAGUPAN City Mayor Brian Lim was slapped anew with another criminal and administrative cases filed last May 16 before the Office of the Ombudsman for Luzon for their failed management of solid wastes in Dagupan. The new cases against Lim and Jessie Doria, head of the Task Force on River…
WANTED: UPDATE ON CITY PROJECTS THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) held a zoom session to discuss pending infrastructure programs and passed a resolution requesting City Engineer Nestor de Vera to submit a written update on the construction of the Revenue Generation Center in front of the old City Hall after…
2022-2025 TERMERS THE May 9 elections in Pangasinan still had few surprises, but most were not surprising at all. The province will see 23 new mayors and 25 reelected mayors that will assume their posts noontime of June 30. But the new mayors are not themselves entirely new since most…
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