Silence better than noise By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD TIME and again it has been proven that there are times that to be quiet is much better than to make noise, to observe silence is more prudent that to talk—especially so when the talk is neither asked for much…
Recalling my first Singapore visit By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. SINGAPORE – I’m making this piece here in this booming and beautiful city-state considered as the cleanest place in Asia. I’m here this time for a three-day respite to unwind my mind, loose some woes that I encountered way…
That cemetery is home By Johanne Margarette R. Macob ALMOST a decade ago and the years before that, the cemetery was a strange place for me, even on all souls’. I wasn’t used to visiting any relatives’ tombs even my grandpas and grandmas’ (as I found the idea awkward…
Lip service By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE Dagupan sanggunian finally adopted the resolution of Councilor Joey Netu Tamayo seeking to create a special committee (Blue Ribbon) that will investigate complaints filed before the city council. Finally, the majority group got its act together to adopt the Netu resolution to…
Pangasinan is assured of orderly barangay polls By Jun Velasco “The greatest happiness of the thinking man is to have fathomed what can be fathomed, and quietly to reverence what is unfathomable,” Goethe BY the time this paper is out, the nation would have made up its mind on…
Reconciliation blues! By Gonzalo Duque WE were and still are in reconciliation mood. Why not? Hindi naman tayo lumalaban nang walang rason e. Look, our name, for all our impassioned support of Mayor Belen Fernandez, is being dragged as if blocking the initiative or unity speech of former Speaker…
Another farce—and we just do nothing By Al S. Mendoza WE hold another farce tomorrow a.k.a. barangay elections. It is a farce because it is another day when we allow again the politically powerful to impose its farcical force on the weak. It is a farce because it is…
Future plans for Pogi By Bebot Villar THIS early, I want to congratulate former Bautista Mayor Amado Espino III, better known as Pogi, for running unopposed, yes, believe it or not, as barangay captain of Poblacion in his hometown. Surprised? Maybe to some yes. To others, that was expected….
Omnipresence By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD OMNIPRESENCE is just that: Present everywhere, existing anywhere – anytime and all the time. This is neither easy to do nor ordinarily done. In fact, even the wind is absent in a vacuum while someone can only be here or there – but…
A sports head in every barangay By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. I’M making this piece on October 25 Friday, three days before the barangay election so we are on a pre-election mode – “It’s tension time,” as the saying goes in sports competitions, like the last two minutes of…
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