Alert for 2018 election THE seeming rash of killings of local elected officials in the countryside is the indicator that the 2018 election is on the horizon for incumbents and wannbes. Fortunately for Pangasinan, political violence has been reduced to a very minimum level and in very few localities. But…

Dagupan as ICT central THE recent move of the Dagupan City government to begin laying down the foundation to make the city a truly a center for information and communications technology (ICY) by seeking to define incentives for establishments is in the right direction. Indeed, no one comes to a…

The Cardinal and the Archbishop FOR too long, the Catholic laity have been getting mixed signals from their two eminent church leaders: Luis Cardinal Tagle and Archbishop Socrates Villegas. While both were critical of the Duterte Administration, pointing gout what they perceive as acts of the government that go against…

Is the war on drugs in Pangasinan over UNTIL last week, this was the question uppermost in many Pangasinenses’ minds when the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO), local police stations and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency team in Pangasinan did not issue any update on buy-bust operations or raids of…

Time to fight back WE join the nation in condemning the killing of already three priests in the countryside. The thought that men of God would be now be made targets of violent elimination by motorcycle-riding hitmen in the country is utterly abominable. It’s apparent that nobody is already held…