Bridge of sighs By Jun Velasco HIGH school journalists were surprised at former PNP chief Art Lomibao’s gift of gab recently at a journalism symposium at the Luna College in Tayug town. Unknown to many, Art, who now styles himself as “Citizen Art,” took special courses in journalism and media,…

JDV and BSL are still friends By Gonzalo Duque BY THE TIME you are reading this I should be in the United States – no, not to effect the arrest of a libelous writer in the Punch’s One-Line section, a certain Pontaoe who is based in Chicago (that will come…

Gambling Unlimited By +Oscar V. Cruz In the 23 January 2005 “Statement on Gambling”, the CBCP took notice of the increasingly serious problem caused by gambling in the country. For this reason, CBCP made the three following key pronouncements: One, CBCP considers all forms of legal and illegal gambling as…

Modified dapog method developed By Sosimo Ma. Pablico A new method of producing hybrid rice seedlings that cuts down on the amount of seeds used as well as production has been developed by researchers of PhilRice [Philippine Rice Research Institute]. Called the modified dapog method, it follows the principles of…

Readers’ E-mailed reactions more credible By Gerry Garcia IN this province as probably elsewhere in this benighted Republic the national daily most often preferred and read is the Philippine Star. At least from this writer’s impression, who often finds the copies all sold out before noon in his favorite news-stands….

Where change begins By Jun Velasco AT PRESSTIME, Task Force Lebanon reported of two casualties who, probably gripped by fright, died while trying to escape from their Lebanese employers. Most of our countrymen who have succeeded in returning to the fatherland are full of horror stories. Many families – Pinoys…

Watch out, Mr. Pontaoe! By Gonzalo Duque IN the Punch On-line, certain contributor by the name of Pontaoe has the nasty habit of picking a fight by maligning the names and columnists in this prestigious paper. I have asked my lawyers to study how we can avail ourselves of a…

Pangasinan’s pride in Agricultural Research By Sosimo Ma. Pablico DR. EDGAR A. Orden is another son of Pangasinan who has brought honors and distinction in agricultural research to his province. The eldest in a brood of four, he was born and raised for a while in San Manuel before his…

Integrity By +Oscar V. Cruz Honesty or uprightness as a personal completeness or total reality—this is the standard concept or total reality—this is the standard concept and common understanding of integrity. It is a wholeness that accepts no breakage such that it is either whole or broken—never both. Thus: water…

Flash floods mar Urdaneta City‘s beauty By Jun Velasco URDANETA City’s much improved infrastructure development  such as the radical widening of the highway right in central poblacion (thank you, Congressman Mark Cojuangco and Mayor Amadito Perez!) is being stymied by flash floods  that  cause traffic jam  at the slightest drop…