Teach man how to fish By Gonzalo Duque WERE we glad that Mayor Benjie Lim came and gave a nice talk before media colleagues last Wednesday? Yes naman, we’re fair game to all, especially to the father of the city. When we are critical of him, we’re just being fair…

“WOW Philippines“   By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD JUST remembering. So brief but many intriguing possibilities it said. So plain but pleasant thoughts it evoked. So plain but big wonders it caused. This was the combined precious and loaded message that “Wow Philippines!” very well delivered and so long remembered….

PSU Alaminos’ suspicious mandate By Jun Velasco “Our men’s sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our back.” — Seneca CONGRATS, Mel Velasco, newly inducted president of Rotary Club of Cubao West. No, not just that, but his successful production and launching of a milestone of a coffee table…

Ashok might go to India for blood donors By Gonzalo Duque OUR last Media in Action was a revelation, full of surprises. From the usual 30 or so persons, mostly PPC members, of course, about 50 came. And took part in the discussions spiritedly.

“Presumed guilty until…” By Oscar V. Cruz JCD THIS is not meant to censure or absolve anybody from any past and present wrong doings—in line with the now much claimed and loudly proclaimed jingle of “Matuid na Daan”. This is neither the least intended to condemn or honor those families…

Migs Zubiri, new hero By Jun Velasco “There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.” — Cicero OUR mother-in-law, former elementary school principal Rosario Gaerlan-Bernardo, died when we were about to write this column. Also, moments ago, we were to have a cup…

Not barking up the wrong tree, but at the monkeys up in the tree  By Gonzalo Duque   
 WE came across a local newspaper headline, “Duque is barking at the wrong tree” last week. Wrong. It should have been “Duque is barking up the monkeys in the tree.” Those monkeys are trying…

Sick and sickening By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD AN image of Jesus Christ with an attached wooden replica of a male genital protruding directly over His Face. The genital is draped with a Holy Rosary, hanging by the base and the tip of the replica. Is this art? A Crucifix…

Benjie wants to change the face of Dagupan By Jun Velasco “He conquers who endures.”—Perseus A LOT of “dizzying” developments are jutting out from that corner tri-secting Dagupan from Barangays Arellano, Bonuan and Lucao, better known as the Dawel Zone.

Hey Benjie! Hi Hitler! By Gonzalo Duque MANY are asking us about evaluation of Pnoy’s SONA. We said we could only rate it from an educator’s lens. We grade it “incomplete.” No grade. Next year na lang. So it’s not “pass,” nor “fail.” Wa grade.