TOO MUCH GARBAGE TO CLEAN By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD In the recent past up to these days, there is one main and continuous complaint said ad nauseam: Garbage here! Garbage there! Garbage everywhere! Of course, there have always been some people trying to clean them, attempting to get rid…

Proposed agenda for Gina and Benjie By Jun Velasco WHEN the political smoke will have completely cleared and given way to sanity, sobriety and brilliancy, it might be well for our leaders the likes of Congresswoman-elect Gina de Venecia and Mayor-elect Benjie Lim to strike some common grounds for cooperation. They can, we…

Exemplary gentleman By Gonzalo Duque WE are happy to learn that Mayor-elect Benjie Lim this early has begun to take concrete steps to correct certain errors that have affected the outgoing administration. One of them is the hard-headed posturing of these illegal fishpen operators who have been accused of bringing havoc,…

LGU, Inc. By Marifi Jara QUELIMANE, Mozambique–We can look at every town, city, and province as a corporation; imagine each local government unit as an “LGU, Inc.”, e.g. Alaminos, Inc., Lingayen, Inc., San Fabian, Inc. or Pangasinan, Inc. The owners of the corporation would of course be the people.

Ashok’s 2nd birthday and the nation By Jun Velasco A FRIEND-cumpadre in Dagupan Rotary and ‘Conquerors’ circles, Ashok Vassandani, marked his “2nd” birthday yesterday. Breakfast thanksgiving with the Conquerors at Pedritos. His “2nd birthday” bash in a span of three weeks. The first was on May l.

Give Noynoy much needed breather muna By Gonzalo Duque IT was most inspiring as well as historic when the nation was able to get over the recent national and local elections is the quickest and therefore cleanest manner. But it seems Filipinos are indeed Filipinos. Parang totoo talaga ang bintang…

“Son of God” By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD THIS is neither intended to question the claimed and acclaimed numerous prerogatives of someone as the “Son of God” – nor is it motivated to criticize his many millions of followers said to be all over the world. This is simply meant…

Summer with the children By Annalyn Tamondong BEING a contractual employee in one university here in Pangasinan where I teach, I really have no job security. While I do my best at work, I realize I cannot expect a guarantee for a continued employment. There is simply no assurance of…

Seize the day! By Jun Velasco WHILE the nation throbs with excitement — Manolo Quezon calls it “glee” — after the surprisingly successful national and local elections, we sympathize with a few who got hit hard. And are still hurting and grumbling. One of them, former President Erap, couldn’t leave his dream-world. He…

Salute Spines’ phenomenal victory By Gonzalo Duque WE wonder why our good friend, former President Erap has not yet conceded, err…, rather “conceived” his defeat. On this account, we doff our hat to former Speaker Joe de Venecia who in 1998 readily congratulated his then very popular opponent when it was…