By Rex Catubig (Note: This is an updated version of my opening remarks at the Darapilan Art Exhibition held in conjunction with the National Arts Month at the so-called Saudi Building in DCNHS campus in February 2020). THERE’S a poem by Langston Hughes inscribed on a flexiglass divider at…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE epaLiFes, the 7-majority in the Dagupan sanggunian, are already frantically grasping at straws on how to evade responsibility over their plot to reject the proposed 2023 annual budget of Dagupan City and compel the reenactment of the 2022 budget in the next 12 months….
By Leonardo Micua INQUIRER.net reported on Friday (before our deadline) that the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chaired by Senator Francis Tolentino has recommended the filing of criminal charges against at least eight former and current officials of the Department of Education and of the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo UNLIKE in jazz and rhythm and blues, where blue notes are used in spirituals, chants and rhymed narrative ballads, the blue note in poetry is melancholic, unrhymed and unsung. A silent, heart-rending wail living in between the verses, unable to shed tears. The knowing…
By Farah G. Decano DAGUPAN City’s advancement seems to be blocked by a Goliath of an opposition. With seven members solidly identified with the opposition and only five with the administration, it would seem impossible for any proposed budget to be enacted, right? Wrong. It is possible. The enactment…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. “THERE’S always first time in life,” one of the world’s popular cliché, that happens to me time and again. Last January 15 during the “First. Jesus Rivera Garcia, Sr. Lingayen Gulf Landing Memorial Race” an amateur bikefest, I sponsored for my first bikefest in…
By Rex Catubig “INTSIK tsonga”, “Tsikwa”– are just two of the monikers they are condescendingly called, implying disdain in the way they are regarded. Which reveals our bias and cultural ignorance. My father was privileged to enjoy a close association with the Chinese in the lumber business. I grew…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE 7 epaLiFes at the Dagupan sanggunian, they who believe they are invincible by simply being in the majority, are finally slowly digging their own political graves. They are finally told in their faces by DILG that it is their job to pass the annual…
By Leonardo Micua NOT until DILG Provincial Director Virgilio Sison paid an unscheduled visit at the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod on January 10 did we know that it’s only Dagupan, among all local government units in Region 1, that does not yet have an approved annual budget for 2023 till…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo FOR someone who has not experienced addiction, it is easy to give advice and encouragement. It is easy, too, to condemn and ostracize. It is not, for one who had experienced the same. Lorenzo E. Gabutina posted this realization: “Recovery fr drug abduction is not…
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