By Al S. Mendoza FROM the ranks of losers in the May 9 elections also come the winners. Winners in money that is; not in votes. That’s because losers are mostly businessmen disguised as candidates come election time. They end up with their pockets lined up with moolah after the…
By Gonzalo Duque I congratulate the ascendancy of Congressman Conrad Estrella III of the Abono party list as secretary of the Department of Agrarian Reform, a post once held by his late grandfather and namesake Conrado F. Estrella who was DAR’s first secretary for 16 years and also former…
By Leonardo Micua THE changing of the guards in some local governments in Pangasinan will happen soon. Of course, there will be some changes and some new faces coming to work with the new officials. That is understandable, as clear as the blue sky. Those holding co-terminus positions, including…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I was not supposed to be in this meeting. My tooth ached and my gums were inflamed. My face was swollen, like I just ate a female crab with all the red roe, prawns and other seafood I was allergic to, but addicted to them…
By Farah G. Decano THERE is so much buzz circulating in social media nowadays about the recent split of local music industry’s power couple, Moira and Jason. Weren’t they the same couple who wrote heartwarming love songs together? Wasn’t their wedding filled with scenic pictures of the groom tearfully…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WE saw on tv how our country mate World Boxing Council (WBC) bantamweight champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire suffered a humiliating defeat against Naoya Inoue, his counterpart in the bantamweight division (118-pound) the World Boxing Association (WBA) and International Boxing Federation (IBF) titleholder,…
By Rex Catubig TO paraphrase a writer’s thought, “Why did our leaders give our people the freedom they don’t really need, rather than the bread he badly wants?” In the context of the colonial past, with the discrimination and abuses documented in two epochal novels, our leaders might have…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. NOW that the May 9 elections have decided what’s in store for Dagupan City, the majority group at the Sanggunian Panlungsod must act and finally give its imprimatur to the proposed 2022 budget for the city on June 28 at the very least. Recall that…
By Al S. Mendoza THERE is the so-called best president that never was. Ninoy Aquino was that. He was being touted to succeed Ferdinand Marcos Sr. But Ninoy got deflected by Marcos himself when Marcos declared Martial Law in 1972 that struck down the 1973 presidential election that Ninoy,…
By Gonzalo Duque I am surprised by the unusual delay in the passage by the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) of the proposed 2022 budget of Dagupan’s which the administration of outgoing Mayor Brian Lim wanted to fast track before the elections. Our earlier suspicion that the urgency to approve the budget before the campaign period was really meant for Brian’s political…
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