Pork Barrel, PDAF, and DAP By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD   WITH different names – the first base, the second cryptic, and the third novel – they however have exactly the same denominator: SCAM, swindle, blackmail, fraud, hoax, racket, sham, deceit – all of this mean one and the same…

Back to square one, again By Bebot Villar   I CAN’T see the purpose and logic of the order of PDEA Chief Art Cacdac. Just barely eight months in his post, busy pang nanghuhuli ng drug personalities thru raids at buy-bust operations, at kasalukuyang in the middle of mapping out…

Padunungan, CYWA, Axlepin, Pentasi B Nen Santiago Villafania   SAKEY ed saray abayag lan malogor a mangitatanggoyor na salitan Pangasinan et saya’y UP Subol Society (Diliman) ed panamegley na tinaon dan programan Padunungan. Ed sayan taon et impatanir da so panusar na anlong ko lamet para ed paliagan a balikas…

Pangasinense Ak!  By Johanne Margarette R. Macob  I CAN always find a reason to be thankful that I am a Pangasinense. Our place has a lot of natural resources, an equally numerous man-made beautiful structures, and of course, it has its lovely and amazing people. 
 
Even before last month ended, our…

Can we love our enemy? By Jun Velasco   “Whoever wants to be the first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many,” Mark 10:44-45 WE were spiritedly…

Fr. Soc talks on good governance By Gonzalo Duque   LAST Thursday, our LNU Dukes “massacred” UPANG-Phinma’s Flames in the hotly fought UCAAP games, 87-60! More exciting details on this in the other pages. Sports columnist Jess Garcia has the details. OK, analysts attribute the Dukes’ success to at least three factors:…

What now, Guv? By Bebot Villar   WHAT’S happening? Nakaka-inip ang maghintay kung anong activity ang isusunod ng provincial government to sustain the anti-drug abuse campaign ng ni-launch nila. All of a sudden, natigil yata ang action nila. Wala na akong narinig na concrete program sa sinasabing pag-revitalize ng Provincial…

Dogmatic Constitution of the Church (II Vatican Council, 21 November 1964) By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD   “Pope: Love over dogma”, dated 21 September 2013, thus proclaimed one of the local dailies, apparently echoing the statement of a foreign news agency in conjunction with the composite interview of Pope Francis….

It’s about R-E-S-P-E-C-T  By Johanne Margarette R. Macob    I REMEMBER almost a year ago, I wrote about plagiarism here. I started it out with: “When I entered college, the very tenets instilled to us were that of ‘Honor and Excellence’. Honor first before excellence, for without the former, the…

Fisherfolks are mad at fishpens’ dismantling report By Jun Velasco   “Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in abundance of his possessions, “Luke 12:15   TYPHOON Odette was slamming Dagupan when we wrote this last Friday. Btw, storms don’t make news…