Personality-based elections By Ermin Garcia Jr. IN case you haven’t noticed our political culture has fully shifted from party system to personality politics. In the national level, there is only one political party slate for the senate, the PDP Laban. The Hugpong Ng Pagbabago is a political aggrupation of candidates…
Belen, a 24/7 public servant By Gonzalo Duque THE Comelec as well as its deputized agencies have launched Operation Baklas as soon as the campaign period for local candidates has begun on March 29. But not all of them were gone. We still see some oversized campaign materials along the highways,…
Change Comelec to Coselec By Al S. Mendoza THERE is this new Comelec ruling riling one senatorial candidate no end. The rule, really, is as crazy as a rule preventing Steph Curry to stop firing threes because it is so easy for him to bury those shots. Of course, that…
Sotto Voce By Virginia Jasmine Pasalo IT is quiet on the western front. Except for the unseen inhabitants of this place, there are two of us still awake: the front desk officer and myself. Not a sound, except for a wandering lizard, whispering, sotto voce. I am here again, for…
Lingayen vs Manaoag‘s 2nd game deferred By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. IN their two consecutive outings, the determined Urdaneta City five defeated the Sto. Tomas quintet the hard way in the semis of the 3rd Governor’s Cup Inter-Town/City Basketball Tournament. In their first game held at Letran Manaoag Gym with…
By: Dr. Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s an article I read in www.moralstories.org. I’d like to share, something we can all learn from. Never To Give UpAuthor Unknown ONE day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out…
Flooding already a non-issue By Leonardo Micua JUST as we were about to start writing this piece, we received an email from the City Information Office announcing that an amphibious excavator machine mounted on a barge from the Department of Public Works and Highways has arrived in Dagupan City to boost the…
The archbishop’s fake news By Ermin Garcia Jr. I do try to give the good Archbishop Soc Villegas the benefit of the doubt that his constant direct and indirect criticisms of President Duterte and his government are not politically motivated but sharing moral guidance from God. But hard as I…
Fighting back with accomplishments By Gonzalo Duque AS I write this column, I remember that today is President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s 74th birthday. Happy birthday, Mr. President! May you have more birthdays to come! Certainly, we wish that he will finish his term as president of the Philippines. The President has done…
Modernize agriculture, mechanize it even By Al S. Mendoza THE water crisis has not only hit Metro Manila but practically the entire agricultural sector. Look at our rice fields and vegetable plantations. Many of them, if not the vast majority of them, have practically dried up due mainly to the…
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