San Miguel Beer still the team to beat By Al S. Mendoza SAN Miguel Beer is on everybody’s lips on the eve of Season 44 of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). When Asia’s first play-for-pay unfurls today, January 13, at the cavernous Philippine Arena, all pundits point to the Beermen…
Proud love-child of World War II By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. LAST week, the annual celebration of the historic Lingayen Gulf landing of the Allied Liberation Forces led by the Americans headed by General Douglas MacArthur was held at the capitol ground in Lingayen last January 9. I wished I…
Sports Eye
By: Dr. Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read in a page on www.moralstories.org. I’d like to share, something we can all learn from. The Poor Man’s WealthAuthor Unknown RAMCHAND and Premchand were neighbors. Ramchand was a poor farmer. Premchand was a landlord. Ramchand used to be very relaxed…
Learnings in Life
Audit reveals more irregular land deals By Leonardo Micua SOME perhaps would simply quickly dismiss the civil case for breach of warranty/rescission and damages filed by the Dagupan City government under Mayor Belen Fernandez against former Mayor Benjamin Lim and Jose Mariano Cuña, in connection with the purchase of a…
Random Thoughts
Fr. Soc’s vs. Bible’s “Anti Christs” By Ermin Garcia Jr. AFTER labeling Christians as “cowards and timid” in his Christmas message he titled as “Stand up for Newborn Jesus.,” (if they don’t stand up to the government’s “vulgarity” with him), Archbishop Socrates Villegas followed it up with another stinging rebuke…
Punchline
Purok Marcela Resort in focus By Gonzalo Duque SORRY to hear that our friend, University of Luzon prexy Macky Samson, Atty. Alvin Fernandez, et.al. are not happy about the Lingayen-Binmaley baywalk infrastructure! Let’s evaluate the group’s complaint. They say the dike blocks the view of the beautiful Lingayen Gulf, a…
Playing with Fire
Nietes deserves our collective applause By Al S. Mendoza DONNIE “Ahas” Nietes is now a four-time world boxing champion. That’s after beating Kazuto Ioka of Japan on New Year’s Eve in Macau. Hooray for “Ahas!” Why is he called “Ahas” again? It’s because of his love for snakes. Nietes used…
General Admission
Pangasinan cyclists are the best, then and now(Second of two series) By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. ASIDE from our 21 national Tour champions who brought 27 individual crowns to our province and 12 runner-up plums won by our local cyclists which I mentioned here last week, our cycling-crazy province also…




