By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER a lull of almost two years, our country’s seasoned pedal-pushers are back on the road again along our national highways to train and compete. They need to do this to revitalize, refresh their muscles, sturdiness and adeptness in the two-wheeled sport that they…
By Rex Catubig “If you came this way, Taking any route, starting from anywhere, At any time or at any season, It would always be the same: you would have to put off Sense and notion. You are not here to verify, Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity Or carry…
The villa in Sta. Barbara
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE integrity and dignity of the Dagupan Sanggunian Panlungsod are non-negotiable! This sums up the message of City Councilor Teresa Coquia to Councilors Librada Reyna- Celia Lim tandem when the duo tried to stop and derail the proceedings on the reported criminal activities of the…
Not negotiable
By Al S. Mendoza WILL it happen tomorrow, November 15—if it hasn’t happened yet? That Sara Duterte will run—has trained her sight—for president in May 2022? Again, the tyranny of deadline prevailed as this was written in advance. But before I had finished this, Sara has withdrawn her bid…
Like father like daughter?
By Leonardo Micua WERE it not for the memorandum of Governor Amado Espino III dated November 9, 2021 uploaded on Facebook, many of us might not have remembered that last November 13 was a red-letter day in Pangasinan, being the 125th birthday of one of the illustrious sons of…
The Father of Dagupan City
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo NOVEMBER 12, after midnight that airplane, the one that just passed by with a steady sound, brings me back to the day of the storm everything just flew on the street with the wild howling of the wind but there was this airplane, moving steadily…
The airplane
By Atty. Farah G. Decano WITH the recent withdrawal of Sara Duterte’s candidacy for Davao City mayor and her resignation from Hugpong ng Pagbabago (HNP), her regional party, one cannot help but anticipate similar theatrics which were originally played out by her father in 2016. On or before November…
PGMA’s Influence
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE number of active COVID–19 cases has been dropping every day in the past few weeks. Yes, we’re feeling it now. This significant improvement in the management of this killer disease that already killed more than two million inhabitants in the world, prompted the Inter-Agency…
Sports tilts in the offing
By Rex Catubig NOWADAYS, when Puto (local rice muffin, not the gay Mexican variant) is mentioned, it comes with the descriptive prefix Calasiao. Just like the fish Bangus which is irrevocably identified with Dagupan, Puto and the township of Calasiao are mentioned in the same breath and have become…
Puchang Puto, O!
By Jing Villamil SHE trips on sunsets. No, she does not have the habit of falling flat on her face during “pag-aagawan ng liwanag at dilim”. It is more like a dropping to her knees, of being unceasingly stunned by its miraculous significance and magnificence! Where she ends, she…




