By Ermin Garcia Jr. WHOEVER is advising Dagupan City Mayor Brian Lim about the handling of the serious charges of corruption and criminal activities at the Market Division office is doing a good job at sabotaging his reelection in 2022! His/her boss is fast sinking in the quagmire and…
By Al S. Mendoza WE are a nation of oddities, if not ironies. Like, we have the longest Christmas season in the world. We are not that tall but basketball is our national pastime, a sport where height is might. We celebrate the death of our National Hero, not…
By Leonardo Micua APROPOS to my item last week, officials of Pangasinan and Dagupan City must now realize that we have long been left out by our neighbors in the Ilocos and the Cordilleras of the convenience of having direct link via public transportation to Metro Manila from Pangasinan….
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo WHEN you left me I promised to contain my tears in between the petals of a wild flower nurtured into bloom by the water from the well you dug in my heart I have drenched my denims and my cotton blouse with my tears…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WHEN former governor and ex-congressman Oscar M. Orbos announced his comeback in politics last month after filing his certificate of candidacy to run anew as congressman in the First District of Pangasinan, several of our local cyclists asked me if the famed bikefest then called…
By Rex Catubig WE call her Nana, a term of endearment both deferential and affectionate, though often said in jest. She was mother hen to us–who became her extended family, dysfunctional and unorthodox–a motley assortment of lovesick, lovelorn, or just crazies in love–or so we thought. Rex at the…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. JUST when I thought the Dagupan City councilors would finally step up as dedicated public servants for the small fish vendors who rushed to them for relief and protection from the harassment of the Lim administration, they ended up quietly walking away after being kicked…
By Al S. Mendoza WHAT is vote buying? You give money to a voter in exchange for a vote. That simple. It is an election offense, of course. Both the vote buyer and vote seller can be either fined or imprisoned. Or both. But it is hardest to prove if such…
By Leonardo Micua NOW that the Philippines is finally rated a low risk area for COVID-19 by the Department of Health, methinks it’s time our local officials again to press for the resumption of public transportation from Pangasinan to Cubao and vice versa if they really care for the…
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