Dagupan, hello? By Bebot Villar  NAGPAKITANG gilas ang bagong regional director ng Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Region 1 na si Col. Roybel Sanchez sa pagkaka aresto ng dalawang babaeng drug couriers from Pasay City. September 4 nang mangyari ang one of the biggest drug haul sa isang buy-bust operation…

Verticalist Preachers By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD THE very words “verticalism” and horizontalism” readily evoke radicalism such that one automatically excludes the other. Just as what is verticalist necessarily excludes that which is horizontal, so too what is horizontalist ipso facto does away with anything vertical. Both terms – with…

Impambaroy ed Luyag na Panay Nen Santiago Villafania  MABETBET no onkaili ak ed sakey e lugar ono pasen, saray sumusulat tan umaanlong so uunaen kon pakabatan. Tan dia’d impanwaywayak ya agano ed Iloilo tan Capiz dia’d luyag na Panay nen imbeneg a bulan na Agosto akapituyawan ko ira di Luis…

Clothing revolution By Johanne Margarette R. Macob   THERE are different ways to convey one’s identity – traditions, beliefs, language, and clothing are some. Clothing bares the fantasy within one’s psyche while it fends one’s body, expressing what one wants as well as what one doesn’t like. And most, if…

American politics and Abraham Lincoln  By Jun Velasco “Man perfected by society is the best of all animals, he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice,” Aristotle EASILY, the world’s focal interest nowadays is the forthcoming US presidential elections this coming November. According…

Judge Maramba’s decision hailed  By Gonzalo Duque 
 
  LAST Friday, Judge Genoveva Maramba came out with a decision in favor of the local colleges and universities’ opposition to the city government’s tax imposition. Decision was anchored on the non-existence of an ordinance to tax our humble business establishments dedicated to the…

Drug haven: Bonuan Binloc By Bebot Villar MAY duda pa rin ba ang mga kapulisan ng Dagupan na talagang rampant ang illegal drugs sa Bonuan Binloc? Matagal na nilang na-confirm na drug haven ng Dagupan and barangay na yan kaya dapat isentro ang operation diyan hanggang totally ay ma-wipe-out na…

Panacea By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD A CURE-all, a sovereign remedy, a universal solution – such is the usual understanding of a panacea. Have it and problems are gone. Observe it and everything will be alright. It is not altogether unlike the nature and effect of illegal drugs. Take them…

Making history By Johanne R. Macob NINE days ago, a new chief justice (CJ) was appointed, Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. She is a UP law cum laude and valedictorian, the 169th justice of the Supreme Court (SC), and the 24th SC chief justice. And she goes down in history as…

Recollections on Ninoy & Jesse Robredo By Jun Velasco “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.”  Matthew 16:24, 25. AS the nation paused to mark Ninoy Aquino’s Day on August 21, that fatal day he was…