Agew na Anlong Nen Santiago Villafania   INDIKLARA na UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) nen 1999 so 21 ed bulan na Marso bilang Agew na Anlong ed lapag a Mundo. Say getma tonia say pangipalapag na panbasa, pansulat, pangigalut tan pambangat na anlong ed intiron mundo….

The hoax stories By Johanne Margarette R. Macob GOOD news: For the past weeks, the province — our beloved Pangasinan — has been more popular, nationwide. Bad news: Those stories responsible for that ‘popularity’ were not entirely good. As one of the thousands of proud Pangasinenses, it bums me out…

Premature politicking By Jun Velasco   “It’s better to look where you’re going than to see where you’ve been,” E.C. McKenzie AN over-protective security aide of Mayor Belen Fernandez roughly pushed aside Manila Bulletin’s Liezle Basa-Inigo while covering the mayor recently. The mayor may not know anything about it. The…

Incredible performance By Gonzalo Duque   WE thank Archbishop Socrates Villegas, Vice Gov. Ferdie Calimlim, Ched Regional Director Ms. Teopie Taguibao, and Mayor Belen T. Fernandez for leading the entourage in the blessing of Le Duc Hotel last Tuesday. Guv’nor Spines, PIO Butch Velasco told us, was on his way…

Creative hide-and-seek By Bebot Villar   WHILE the police officers are aggressively hunting down the illegal drug dealers, mas nagiging creative pa ang mga damuhong criminal in selling droga! Patunay nito ay ang isinagawang raid last week ng Dagupan City police at mga agents ng Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)…

Gender Identity Question By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD   IN its more simple or plain understanding, the phrase “Gender Identity Question” means a young boy or a man having amorous feelings towards another young boy or man, a young girl or woman having amorous feelings towards another young girl or…

Being 20-something By Johanne Margarette R. Macob I JUST arrived home from get-together with a college buddy. No serious business to talk about, just shared stories about our respective careers, families, love-lives, etc. until we zeroed in on career, on our dreams. I’m a struggling journalist while she, a struggling…

FVR, JDV: inseparable duo By Jun Velasco MEDIA front: Undoubtedly, the Sunday Punch wields the baton in the province’s media leadership hierarchy. A new kid on the block, the Capitol Post is a Northern Luzon paper based in Lingayen town. It has started circulating in La Union, Ilocos Sur and…

Ms. Finela Tan Sim, game changer By Gonzalo Duque   FIRST, our tribute to the late Salvador “Badong” Bernal, National Artist, of Dagupan City. The late Badong Bernal, closest “ campus political ally” of Jun Velasco at the DCHS Student Council and in their ill-fated Varsitarian presidential odyssey, was a…

25 December 0001 By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD   TIME means many things to many people. And among other things, time counts its moment-to-moment passage in terms of minutes and hours, in forms of days, months, and years. Time also serves to note and remember memorable if not horrible events…