Battles for the fifth and last slot By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER the long break for the holiday season, hostilities in the 4th Governor’s Cup Pangasinan Inter-Town/City Basketball Tournament resumed on January 11. This is still not the next round among the four teams in each conference group (Central,…
Another proof on MacArthur landing By Leonardo Micua SECOND District Board Member Liberato Villegas, now on his third term of office, rejoiced over the claim of University of the Philippines professor, Ricardo T. Jose, that General Douglas Mac Arthur first landed in his hometown of San Fabian and not in Dagupan…
There got to be a law! By Jing Villamil AN hour before the “reunionists” arrive for lunch, the house is smelling clean and fresh, thanks to the wide-open but screened windows, pine-scented freshener and days of vigorous, hand-numbing scouring, scrubbing, sweeping, washing, airing, arranging, re-arranging. It smells cloyingly yummy, too….
“Shared Responsibility” in protection racket? By Ermin Garcia Jr. SOMETHING was amiss in the enforcement of the firecracker law and executive order of President Duterte. Notwithstanding the ban and intensified campaign in media vs. illegal firecrackers, there was still obviously ample supply of deadly banned firecrackers manufactured in various barangays…
History is on Trump’s side By Al S. Mendoza DONALD Trump was impeached last December 18. He becomes only the third President of the United States to suffer that fate. The first was Andrew Johnson getting axed 151 years ago in 1868, followed by Bill Clinton in 1998. But impeachment…
2020 By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo ON New Year’s Day, my brother-in-law Jojo and his daughter Jam brought me with them to visit a lot their family purchased eight years ago at Amiya Raya Highland Homes adjacent to Banyan Ridge at Timberland Heights by Filinvest in San Mateo, Rizal. It was…
Pangasinan cyclists’ ups-and-downs in the last decade By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. YEAR 2019 is gone. We are now at the start of third decade of the century. The last decade had its ups-and-downs for our national Pangasinan athletes but fortunately, the best for them was last year when Philippines…
Last Wish of the Mother By Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read on Facebook in Demic page that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. Author Unknown A man was offered a job in another state. He decided to take his mother to a…
Still, their best was not good enough By Leonardo Micua THE report released by the Department of Health (DOH) that firecracker injuries this year declined by at least 35 percent and there was no death recorded whatsoever as compared to last year’s statistics, is not something they should really crow about,…
Inequality of equals By Jing Villamil WE were born equal, “pantay-pantay”. Ahhh, how can one be so sure of that? We, definitely, were . . . not. The Child was born in a manger, the Mother pushing Him out hard, no midwife in sight; and the surrogate Father himself ushering…
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