By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I wrote “Yellow Light” to start the Poetree Train, a chain of poems about trees to celebrate the World Poetry Day nine years ago, 01 March 2016 published in “Kiew: An Anthology of Tree Poems”, a collection of 148 tree poems and ten translations into…
By Farah G. Decano I recently watched an impassioned call for the return of former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (FPRRD) to the Philippines by a mother whose child was raped and killed by a drug addict. To her, illegal drug users do not deserve a day in court and…
By Eva C. Visperas AS the political climate heats up for the May 12 midterm elections in Pangasinan, the use of dirty tactics in campaigning has reached new lows. I don’t usually get glued to Facebook, but lately, I’ve found myself doing so as a way of assessing the…
By Rex Catubig TO prepare for a reluctant friend’s birthday dinner, I cruised around to scout for some down-home stuff to make into hors d’oeuvres and crudites as a prelude to dinner. I found the “biggest oysters” in town. Not homegrown as I had wanted, but imported from neighboring…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! MARCH 31 – (Dagupan City) Rizalina Sandoval; (Calasiao) Catherine Agustin, Nenita Agustin APRIL 02 – (Calasiao) Luzviminda De Vera; Orlando Osmeña; (Baguio City) Alexander de Guzman APRIL 04 – (Dagupan City) Aristotle Fernandez, Myrna Fernandez; (Calasiao) Anita De Vera Happy Birthday! EDNA MAMOCATCAT (MARCH 30 – Manaoag) Happy…
THE Red flag is up! The 2025 Midterm elections is not going to be just like any other in the past. What it is, and how it will end will be a test of our individual and community moral character. It will not be a mere election of another set…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. A thought deemed most unlikely to happen, happened at the highest national political level last week. Sen. Imee Marcos, elder sister of PBBM, bolted her brother’s political party with an unprecedented twist. She decided to politically distance herself from her brother’s politics upon getting her…
COMELEC RULE VIOLATED – Personnel of the Dagupan City Comelec Office are back on the city’s highway and streets for a day for its token implementation of illegally mounted campaign posters around the city. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE Regional Trial Court in Urdaneta denied the temporary restraining order petition filed by the mayor and vice mayor of the city as their one-year suspension was already been put into effect, but noted that there was no proper service of the decision in accordance with the Rules of Court,…
THE seven-member majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod brushed aside accusations that they were to blame for the canceled implementation of the Mother and Child Hospital (MCH), since they passed the needed resolution authorizing Mayor Belen Fernandez to sign a memorandum of agreement for the establishment of the project with the…
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