Keeping Christmas spirit alive   WITHOUT a doubt, that Christmassy feeling is with us today. It’s December! Soon we will have the Misa de Gallo, where young and old Catholics in the country will seek to keep the tradition of early dawn masses alive in spite of the new practice…

Talk about Pangasinan’s interests YOU know election is just around the corner when wannabes in national elections are suddenly popping up in Dagupan City, being the major media center in Pangasinan. It is that time of the decade when Pangasinan becomes the adopted province, when someone is invoked either as…

War on drugs’ delusional objective IS Pangasinan nearly drug-cleared? If we go merely by submission of administrative documentation, the answer will probably be yes. But the policy of requiring documentation only provides the indication a town/city is drug-cleared at the time of the submission. However, since evaluation by the regional…

College diploma or drugs   THE Commission on Higher Education’s (CHEd) announced mandatory random drug testing policy to be conducted in universities, colleges and other higher education institutions next academic year is timely in the face of increasing number of crimes being committed by drug users. As studies have shown,…

Pangasinan Beach, a vision and a dream  WHAT most thought was unthinkable turned out to be the best thing that ever happened. We are referring to the surprise and unexpected order to transform Boracay Beach from a cesspool to the world’s finest anew. That it happened the way it did,…