Pork Barrel, PDAF, and DAP By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD WITH different names – the first base, the second cryptic, and the third novel – they however have exactly the same denominator: SCAM, swindle, blackmail, fraud, hoax, racket, sham, deceit – all of this mean one and the same…
We were wrong all along, fellas By Al S. Mendoza UNTIL the P10-billion scam hit newspaper headlines, we thought all along that our government has always been short of money. Until whistleblowers exposed a web of corruption that robbed us blind, we thought all along that our senators and…
Back to square one, again By Bebot Villar I CAN’T see the purpose and logic of the order of PDEA Chief Art Cacdac. Just barely eight months in his post, busy pang nanghuhuli ng drug personalities thru raids at buy-bust operations, at kasalukuyang in the middle of mapping out…
Marquez will win By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. A WEEK from now (Oct. 13 PHL time), the United States’ Timothy Bradley Jr. and Mexico’s icon Juan Manuel Marquez ‘s most-touted world boxing mega bucks fight will take center stage. They will square off for the World Boxing Organization…
Padunungan, CYWA, Axlepin, Pentasi B Nen Santiago Villafania SAKEY ed saray abayag lan malogor a mangitatanggoyor na salitan Pangasinan et saya’y UP Subol Society (Diliman) ed panamegley na tinaon dan programan Padunungan. Ed sayan taon et impatanir da so panusar na anlong ko lamet para ed paliagan a balikas…
Pangasinense Ak! By Johanne Margarette R. Macob I CAN always find a reason to be thankful that I am a Pangasinense. Our place has a lot of natural resources, an equally numerous man-made beautiful structures, and of course, it has its lovely and amazing people. Even before last month ended, our…
The long 75 days By Ermin Garcia Jr. FINALLY after 75 days, a resolution was filed seeking to create a special committee that would investigate in aid of legislation reported irregularities in the city hall to the extent of establishing accountabilities of local officials. After 75 days of incessant…
Can we love our enemy? By Jun Velasco “Whoever wants to be the first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many,” Mark 10:44-45 WE were spiritedly…
Fr. Soc talks on good governance By Gonzalo Duque LAST Thursday, our LNU Dukes “massacred” UPANG-Phinma’s Flames in the hotly fought UCAAP games, 87-60! More exciting details on this in the other pages. Sports columnist Jess Garcia has the details. OK, analysts attribute the Dukes’ success to at least three factors:…
Why it has come to this, only God knows By Al S. Mendoza ALL this time that we scrounge for money to keep both ends meet, here are our politicians wallowing in cash. Aren’t all the elected our so-called servants? And, doesn’t P-Noy himself call us his boss? How…
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