By Leonardo Micua AS clear as day, Dagupan’s annual city budget and its integral plans as well as the Annual Investment Plan, all for Calendar Year 2023, will not be passed before the March 31, 2023 deadline. The seven-man majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod appears to be in no…
By Farah G. Decano THE animosity of the majority faction against Dagupan City Mayor Belen T. Fernandez must be so fiercely personal that they are ready to sacrifice their respective political careers just to cause her extreme vexation and her possible downfall. As per my source, the proposed supplemental…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. “IT has been said, and it will be done.” That was my reading of the thoughts of my beloved town Mangaldan’s chief executive Bonafe de Vera Parayno on the return of Pangasinan’s biggest, oldest and the most prestigious one-day bikefest in the province popularly…
By Rex Catubig SOME wonder why the Jayceekens love to have breakfast and meetings at the unkept PNR Heritage site. And for good reason. After all, the dusty ground, crawling ants and falling insects from the Duhat tree, aggravated by the piercing morning sun, can turn off the…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE item below is for the eyes of the once mighty 7 epaLiFes … so don’t bother reading on. He-he. * * * * Hi there, 7 epaLiFes! The sense of invincibility that you made yourselves believe to have is already fast crumbling. But because…
By Leonardo Micua FROM where I sit, I view the incident in Bayambang where a woman onion farmer, who testified in the senate hearing and cried harassment when the police visited her not once but eight times, as an eye-opener . From what I gathered, the issue started when…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo SHE could not remember their faces. Their faces have changed with time, and the expression of their bodies changed with their mindsets and physical wellbeing. What is there to say after more than thirty years, barely touching each other’s lives or not touching at all…
By Farah G. Decano SIMPLY stated, the Maharlika Investment Fund is a collection of mandated amounts from various government financial institutions (GFI) to be managed by a board chosen by the President for investment purposes. This is similar to the sovereign fund of other countries which is sourced from…
By Jesus A. Gacia Jr. DESPITE my retirement in competitive cycling after an accident that struck me in 2001, and now as an aging hombre, the two-wheeled event still never escaped my mind as an organizer, race director, and sometimes even as sponsor (when I have the means) like…
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