Hope in media reforms By Gonzalo Duque THE election of the new Pangasinan Press Club officers by this time would have been finished. Your columnist, encouraged by not a few fellow columnists and newsmen, entered the presidential affair in hopes we could put in our modest share in upgrading not only the…
Post EDSA 1: One big lost opportunity By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD EDSA I was wonderful for the country, a pride of the Filipino people. It was the end-result of a prolonged rude rule. It was the ultimate effect of incarnate self-service in a public office. It was the blessed…
Buoyant mood By Jun Velasco WE’RE in a buoyant mood somewhat because of the many new faces of triumph in the world these days. Our pugilist icon and congressman Manny Pacquiao just dealt the US government a “first round knockout,” and please don’t be surprised if he begins eying the presidency of the…
Why we did not attend Benjie’s SOCA? By Gonzalo Duque MANY of our friends are asking why we did not attend Mayor Benjie Lim’s state of the city address on February l4. Kailangan pa bang sagutin yan? Okay, because we are game, we’ll tell you.
Constitution of the Philippines – State Policy, Section 12 By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD “The State…shall protect…the life of the unborn from conception.” Thus stands the truth and trust the reality reads about a State Policy basically about someone who is human person, who is not yet born and who…
A world in conflict By Jun Velasco THERE’S a love-hate wave in the air. It’s almost Valentines Day, a day — or better, a night when hearts become warmer and our thoughts remember tender moments with the loved one. Whoever invented Valenine’s Day deserves our salute because his “baby” can transform a…
Benjie is too clever for SP foes By Gonzalo Duque WE were flattered no end by Gov. Amado “Spines” Espino during his delivery of his State Of the Province Address last week. Our beerkda in Dagupan who heard him on radio and the local TV kept asking, “ano ba pinakain…
Valentine’s Day: Desecrating the sacred INSTEAD of celebrating it as something noble and sacred, instead of fomenting the exalted intention and exalting spirit that launched the “Day”, it is sad to know that there are certain individuals and organized groups apparently bent in making it but carnal in nature and…
Thank God for Rabusa and Heidi By Jun Velasco WE are in the middle of a storm center — or a colossal earthquake — that, if handled well and competently, could transform these fabled islands into a real paradise that we’ve for a long time recited in colorful rhetoric and song. It’s sad…
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