By Farah G. Decano WHEN I first ran for Councilor in 2001, some concerned relatives informed me that this political exercise was also a competition among angkans or clans. Those who were “mabuleg” or have a lot of kin members were more likely to win. Candidates must not only…
By Rex Catubig “ I Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” ― T.S. Eliot YOU’D think that fifty years of friendship would be arduous for ebbing memory to process and recall. But for twelve unending hours one Saturday past, memories…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. DAGUPAN’S 7 epaLiFes are already frantic and panic-stricken about their future during the campaign period. They have absolutely nothing to gloat about as their accomplishments as councilors who ruled the city council. In desperation, they made themselves believe that plagiarizing and hi-jacking proposed ordinances crafted…
By Gonzalo Duque THE ongoing investigations by the Senate and the House of Representatives relative to POGO, EJK, and illegal drugs seem to be going nowhere. Our people are beginning to see the zarzuela or circus in these probes. If they continue with the way they have been treating…
By Leonardo Micua THE QuadCom hearing in Congress probing the alleged extra-judicial killings (EJKs) during the previous administration yielded a positive result, at least as far as the unsolved bizarre killing in 2020 of retired General Wesley Barayuga, a member of PMA Class of 1983, a respected AFP officer…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I never doubted the evolution of the human race. We are born, we live, we die. Or we take another form. We become something else, to sustain human existence. Others believe that our spirits join the larger spiritual dimension, the superconsciousness, becoming one with God….
By Farah G. Decano I cannot help but continue to laugh at this ad hominem attack hurled at me online by a lawyer during the height of the Carlos Yulo family saga. The Olympian publicly faulted his mother of theft. This co-alumnus of the UP College of Law claimed…
By Eva C. Visperas AN urgent message beeped into my cellphone. It was October 3, around 8:21 a.m., when I received an alert from a friend saying that Sual Mayor Dong Calugay is about to file his candidacy for re-election in the May 2025 elections. I was busy at…
By Rex Catubig HIS name is Cesar. Yet there is nothing remotely noble about his birth nor upbringing. Born into poverty, his family was forced out of their home because they didn’t have money for the rent. With no other place to go, they squatted on a vacant lot…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE arrogance of the 7 epaLiFes in Dagupan City is endless. They maintain that not even the national government can compel them to accept a well-funded project for the benefit of Dagupeños unless and until their self-serving political terms and conditions are met. I even…
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