By Ermin Garcia Jr. LIKE many other pundits out there who’ve offered their points of view on how the 2025 midterm elections went, permit me to share my thoughts. It’s encouraging that there has been no claim of grand-scale cheating via our new automated counting machines so far. However,…
By Gonzalo Duque LET us congratulate the winners of the just-concluded national and local elections. To those who did not make it, my magnanimous message to you is, “better luck next time” and learn from the wisdom of our great philosopher that “service to humanity is the best work…
By Leonardo Micua THE UnliSerbisyo team of Dagupan made history of sorts when it scored a near sweep of the May 12 elections at the expense of the opposition group led by the Lim mother and son tandem. Credit it to the hard work of Mayor Belen Fernandez who campaigned…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo IN writing, I seek more to understand myself better than to enlighten others. There are times when inspiration only comes an hour after the deadline, with just a smell, a memory, a face. Anything could trigger a word. Others approach writing differently. My friend, historian…
By Farah G. Decano “PAKURONG” is a Pangasinan word which literally means “to allow the crawling of a person, animal, or thing.” Nowadays, the term refers to goods or money furtively given to the electorate at least hours before the voting process stars in exchange for the candidates’ names included in…
By Eva C. Visperas I never set out to be a fortune teller — far from it. But in my previous write-ups, I offered bold foresight on the electoral outcomes in several hotly contested areas – places where the battles were expected to go down to the wire. Those…
By Rex Catubig IT’S a morality tale for all time. And it runs the length and breadth of the years—from the bible story of Judas losing his mind and killing himself, to the Greek dramaturgy of antiquities, on towards unraveling history and the present. It’s the same throughout, with…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE endorsement of the whole Unliserbisyo team of Belen Fernandez-Bryan Kua by the Iglesia ni Cristo must have come as a big shock to the LIFE barkada and mother-son team of Celia and Brian Lim. It will be recalled that son Brian arrogantly warned of…
By Gonzalo Duque AS I was writing this column, I heard that the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) just announced their candidates for Dagupan City, including mayor, vice mayor, and down to the last councilor – all from the Unliserbisyo team. One might ask why a religious group endorsed an…
By Leonardo Micua TOMORROW, May 12, the people will go to the polls to elect leaders who will take the mantle of responsibility in governing them for another three years for local officials, and six years for the senators. We just hope and pray that they will be making…
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