A humiliating report By Gonzalo Duque TO US in the education sector, the Speakership should go to our Congressman Joe de Venecia. It is for selfish reason that we do so. Because his focus as well as that of President Gloria’s is on education, how to elevate if from where…

760M corn postharvest losses in 3 major provinces By Sosimo Ma. Pablico Corn farmers and traders in three of the country’s major corn producing   provinces lose at least 760 million a year due to postproduction losses, according to results of a study conducted by the Bureau of   Postharvest Research and…

Super task-force By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. It is both interesting and strange why a “State of the Nation Address” (SONA) requires much safeguard and the military in full force are being called upon to secure the occasion. People can expect the display of a good number of bullets…

Thoughts in the air By Marifi Jara An international airport in Pangasinan to boost tourism. Hmm. Not, in my opinion, the most soaring (pun intended) of ideas. From an environmental perspective, air travel is one of the biggest contributors to carbon emission worldwide. The additional carbon footprint that will be…

Words, words, words By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. If glorious pronouncements and super visions from the national leadership were enough to stop killings, corruption and injustice, this country would be one big heaven on earth. There is no known major national problem it did not address, no infamous socio-political…

Belen, out to revive ailing Malimgas Market By Gerry Garcia Plans are afoot in the incoming city administration of come-backing former Mayor Al Fernandez to stir business in the ailing 3-year-old Malimgas baby of out-going city Mayor BSL. Newly elected Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, proven business entrepreneur in Pangasinan and…

Fast changing times By Jun Velasco THIS crisp broadsheet, Asian Journal, must be today’s largest Fil-Am broadsheet circulating in the US and parts of the Asia Pacific, with something like 50,000 copies of news articles about the Philip-pines. So what of it? Well, the paper is printed somewhere in Pangasinan….

Watch out for Belen Fernandez By Gonzalo Duque I WANT to felicitate the new officers of the Rotary Club of Uptown Dagupan headed by Dr. Lucy Honrado, the winningest of them all, on their induction recently at the newest and the biggest Jimmy Fernandez Convention Center in Barangay Lucao, Dagupan…

Barbarism By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. It is not easy to accept that in this civilized age of well advance science and much developed technology, there are still downright barbarians in this country. It actually has no reference to race, color and creed. Barbarism is in reality a sick…

Parasites help control rice black bug By Sosimo Ma. Pablico The rice black bug may be considered one of the most difficult rice pests to control, but it should not be so much concern in transplanted rice if only parasites are properly managed, results of studies conducted in Agusan indicated. …