By Rex Catubig AUGUST is when monsoon brings copious rain, and usually intensifies into tropical typhoon. In my boyhood, at the start of a heavy downpour, we would run out into the yard and cheerily drench our fragile bodies with heaven’s libation. But as thunder rolls and lightning menacingly…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THERE’S a new entertaining game in Dagupan City. It’s called the “LiFe-Camera-Action” at the Sanggunian! The cast is complete. The political objective is unmistakable. The agenda is self-serving. Hubris and bravado are its motivation. The level of play is immature and childish – for beginners…
By Al S. Mendoza IN his inauguration speech on June 30 as the country’s 17th President, Bongbong Marcos said: “Ang pangarap ninyo ay pangarap ko.” Not once, not twice but several times he had said that. Who said the London-schooled BBM is not well-versed in Tagalog? Roughly translated, his line…
By Gonzalo Duque EVEN before President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. can deliver his State of the Nation Address, his allies in Congress already started working. Even reelected Senator Sherwin Gatchalian is seeking the review of the K-to-12 programs – to see if there is a need to abolish it or continue…
By Leonardo Micua DURING the third regular session of the Sangguniang Panglunsod of Dagupan (there was no quorum after the inaugural session), Councilor Jigs Seen broke the ice by delivering a privilege speech directed at the heart of the new majority when he slammed the new Internal Rules and Procedures (IRP…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo LAST night, my sister noticed that there were piles of construction materials dumped on the adjacent lot we had maintained cleaning for several months now. The ampalaya (bitter gourd) was buried under the rubbles, and its leaves wilted from the weight carelessly dumped at its…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. UNDOUBTEDLY, our country’s number one favorite sport then and now is basketball. But sad to say that two of our latest and prestigious international stints by our Philippines national basketball team called “Gilas Pilipinas” unexpectedly suffered humiliating defeats. The first was in the latest biennial…
By Rex Catubig I’M haunted by memories of catastrophes. Yet I was never in any of them. As a young boy, I was raised on stories around the massive brick columns that lay on the riverbank of Calmay. The overriding theme was the Great Flood of 1935, way before…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE members of the LiFe team in Dagupan politics, they who managed to form the majority at the Sanggunian Panlungsod, are showing both their fangs and immaturity already at this early stage of their political stint. By absenting themselves in the last week’s session achieved…
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