Dagupan’s unfinished CR (not Comfort Room)     By Gerry Garcia   THE so-called new circumferential road intended to ease traffic congestion in streets within the city proper, had been expected to be linked directly to the de Venecia diversion highway’s end in Lucao from its initial Dawel-Pantal stretch. This…

  Best Wishes, Gina! By Gonzalo Duque       WISH to greet Ms. Gina P. De Venecia on the occasion of her birthday last Feb. 15 and congratulate her on the groundbreaking ceremonies of the Haven for Women gymnasium in Alabang on the same day. She was our crowning…

  Andy Williams, 71, at his best By Jun Velasco       ON the way to the poblacion, we saw a rumble in the university belt along Arellano street. What happened? We were catching an appointment in Lingayen and lost track. We learned later from UPang Director Boy Rayos…

  Reminiscences of the good old days By Gerry Garcia       IT’S not only because our durable Speaker Joe de Venecia is a fellow-Pangasinense that we are 100% behind his move for a shift to a unitary parliamentary type of government. Most compelling reason is that Joe, himself…

     The Duque brothers  By Jun Velasco       During our elementary school years, we would walk from our home in Barangay Malued to the public plaza almost every Saturday to bike around the well-paved square. There were rows of bicycles for rent, which thrilled us to no…

    Athletics and politics don’t mix By Gonzalo Duque           By the time you are reading this, the PRISAA games would have been over.  Thank God, it’s over? No, I wish the games were still here. We enjoyed every minute of it. And I must…

  The inimitable John Lesaca  By Gerry Garcia           Another surprise entertainer from Metro Manila, aside from Gary Valenciano and Dagupeña Mocha, invited by PRISAA honcho Gonz Duque to add color to the just ended national games here in Pangasinan, was Pinoy jazz fiddler John Lesaca, probably…

      Why we’re catching the last bus By Gerry Garcia             “Parliament” seems to be the word of the times today here in Pinoyland as it presupposes,   for most, the long wished chance to free ourselves from the rut of mass poverty and…

  A million thanks to you all! By Gonzalo Duque         TODAY, Sunday, circa February 5, our city and some towns of the province will play host to the Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA) national games nationwide athletic competitions. Sorry, and thank you, Ermin, I have used…

Conrad Estrella ‘invades’ the west By Jun Velasco       THERE is premature dancing in the streets when no less than the Congress committee overseeing the proposed charter change has frowned on the proposal to cancel the 2007 elections as a countdown to the proposed shift to a parliamentary…