Joey is popular among Dagupeños By Jun Velasco IT was a different Joey de Venecia persona the Dagupan folk saw the other Saturday, a few days after super Typhoon Cosme lashed the city and province. The matinee idol-looking namesake and junior of former Speaker Joe created a mini storm as…

Tuition fees Debate By Gonzalo Duque AS WE foresaw it, Dr. Lucio Tan, El Kapitan and mega business mogul made good his word in sending any form of help or assistance to our beloved Dagupan City after his visit to Dagupan three weeks ago. He recently sent his donation of…

Distinct honor from CSSP By Sosimo Ma. Palbico THE BIGGEST SURPRISES in one’s life really come at the least expected moment.  Just like an award for me as an agriculturist and agricultural journalist from the CSSP [Crop Science Society of the Philippines], which is probably the largest group of agriculture…

Omnipotence By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. All signals and indications say one and the same thing. The Malacañang occupant deeply loves and enjoys much the feeling of omnipotence with elements of omniscience as a complementary attribution. During these days there is even manifest design to consolidate more power and…

Pinoys work hard but never together By Gerry Garcia Our octogenarian balikbayan friend still remembers the unforgettable outburst of the late MLQ (1st president of the Philippine Commonwealth in 1935) who said he’d prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to one that is run like heaven by Americans….

Why God sends us earthquakes, cyclones and tsunamis? By Jun Velasco AS we go to press, many parts of the world are in a state of shock, confusion and angst. The international wires and our television footages stab our hearts with graphic portraits of death, suffering and devastation brought about…

Stop politicking at this calamitous hour By Gonzalo Duque Dagupan City’s shroud of darkness brought about by Cyclone ‘Cosme’ last Saturday should, by now, if he has not done yet, prod Mayor Al Fernandez, Gov. Amado Espino and the other LGU heads to take seriously all this Disaster Preparedness Program.  …

Carabaos are not disappearing By Sosimo Ma. Pablico Provincial officials of Pangasinan need not be worried that the carabao may soon disappear from Philippine farms.  On the contrary, the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC), the national agency responsible for the development of the Philippine carabao both as a draft animal and…

Death penalty – no! By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. To say it clearly and put it briefly: As no government is the author of human life, no human life may be taken by any government. Furthermore, just as no human law can bring about human life, this may neither…

Another milestone for Dagupan? By Gerry Garcia FINALLY the 4-km Dawel-Pantal-Lucao road skirting the southern side of the city proper up to the CSI shopping center in Lucao was formally opened to traffic last Friday. And this could be the result of, or in spite of, the looming curiosity in…