Season of repentance By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. For those who are still faithful to their Catholic faith and who are still truly interested in understanding the inherent significance of the now ongoing Season of Advent prior to Christmas, it might be good for them to know that these…

10 items or less By Marifi Jara QUELIMANE, Mozambique—Rain is pouring hard as I begin writing this. Aside from the heavy downpour, the first after almost a week of cloudy and humid days, there are also no telltale signs that it’s Christmas season. There are hardly any Christmas decorations in…

Joey de Venecia III eyeing senate By Jun Velasco WORLD boxing got a black eye because of the ugly way ring idol Oscar dela Hoya ended his career. True or false, the hearsay that it was a fixed fight between him and our own Pambansang Kamao Manny Pacquiao has given…

Thank you, Bishop Cruz! By Gonzalo Duque THE anti cha-cha rally held in Makati City last Friday was rained. Meaning it got wet all over. Talaga atang may guardian angel si Ate Glo ano? Nang dumating si Manny Pacquiao, ang ganda ng weather. And when the critics and detractors were…

DL Umali Achievement Award for a Vietnamese scientist (Part 1) By Dr. Sosimo Ma. Pablico DR. VO TONG XUAN is not a Filipino, but permit me to use this column to pay tribute to a friend from our undergraduate years at the UP College of Agriculture (UPCA) in Los Banos…

Capitalism in review By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. No. This is not a downright rejection of capitalism, but much less is it an absolute affirmation of socialism. This is neither in defense of liberalism nor in promotion of communism. Rather, it is a reservation of the capitalistic system without…

Oh my fiesta By Marifi Jara By Marifi Jara (Fiestas are as Filipino as adobo can be. While it largely stems from our Spanish colonial past, we have, in many parts of the country, molded the festivals in recent years into our very own. And just like that other ubiquitous…

Waste of time By Jun Velasco AFTER the Pacquiao-De La Hoya circus, we are forced back to our old not-so-funny permanent circus, politics, our politicos’ preoccupation with wrong governance dictated by selfish aggrandizement. Do they really mean to change the constitution in a noble way? But their hands show that…

PhilHealth regional office stays in Dagupan By Gonzalo Duque WHEN we wrote about a nasty proposal to transfer the regional office in Dagupan City of the Philippine Health Insurance (PHILHEALTH) to La Union, many Pangasinenses were mad. Some of them texted us to express their anger and irritation. They said,…

“Sacada” descendant a pillar in aggie research By Dr. Sosimo Ma. Pablico MANY DESCENDANTS of migrants from Northern Luzon have great difficulty in tracing the exact origin of their forefathers and, hence, could not pinpoint any relative there. The simple reason is that they were brought to those places and,…