Let’s move on By Bebot Villar   THANK God quiet na uli ang kapaligiran. Tapos na rin ang mga bangayan. Wala nang mga sumbong at pang- iistorbo sa cellphone. The people have spoken. Of course, may mga nag-celebrate at meron ding parang namatayan ang itsura dahil sa pagkatalo nitong Oct….

Silence better than noise By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD   TIME and again it has been proven that there are times that to be quiet is much better than to make noise, to observe silence is more prudent that to talk—especially so when the talk is neither asked for much…

That cemetery is home 
 By Johanne Margarette R. Macob 
 
 
   ALMOST a decade ago and the years before that, the cemetery was a strange place for me, even on all souls’. I wasn’t used to visiting any relatives’ tombs even my grandpas and grandmas’ (as I found the idea awkward…

Pangasinan is assured of orderly barangay polls By Jun Velasco   “The greatest happiness of the thinking man is to have fathomed what can be fathomed, and quietly to reverence what is unfathomable,” Goethe   BY the time this paper is out, the nation would have made up its mind on…

Reconciliation blues! By Gonzalo Duque   WE were and still are in reconciliation mood. Why not? Hindi naman tayo lumalaban nang walang rason e. Look, our name, for all our impassioned support of Mayor Belen Fernandez, is being dragged as if blocking the initiative or unity speech of former Speaker…

Future plans for Pogi By Bebot Villar   THIS early, I want to congratulate former Bautista Mayor Amado Espino III, better known as Pogi, for running unopposed, yes, believe it or not, as barangay captain of Poblacion in his hometown. Surprised? Maybe to some yes. To others, that was expected….

Omnipresence By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD   OMNIPRESENCE is just that: Present everywhere, existing anywhere – anytime and all the time. This is neither easy to do nor ordinarily done. In fact, even the wind is absent in a vacuum while someone can only be here or there – but…

Sustainability By Johanne Margarette R. Macob    I GREW up believing in fairytales, in destinies, in happy endings. That sooner or later, everything will be okay. I came of age adhering to Aristotle’s philosophy that man is naturally sociable as he/she is not self-sufficing. That families, friendships and other relationships…

Com. Padaca and a trustworthy Comelec By Jun Velasco   “You will be punished by the Lord of hosts With thunder and earthquake and great noise With storm and tempest and the flame of devouring fire.” Isaiah 29:6   WHILE most quarters are talking about the First 100 days of…

No reconciliation without justice By Gonzalo T. Duque   THIS columnist has been under severe attack by ailing Benjie Lim’s attack dogs because of our zealous support to Mayor Belen Fernandez. They (we know them though hiding in a shroud of darkness) have been throwing all kinds of dirt, innuendoes, etcetera…