What now, Guv? By Bebot Villar WHAT’S happening? Nakaka-inip ang maghintay kung anong activity ang isusunod ng provincial government to sustain the anti-drug abuse campaign ng ni-launch nila. All of a sudden, natigil yata ang action nila. Wala na akong narinig na concrete program sa sinasabing pag-revitalize ng Provincial…
Dogmatic Constitution of the Church (II Vatican Council, 21 November 1964) By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD “Pope: Love over dogma”, dated 21 September 2013, thus proclaimed one of the local dailies, apparently echoing the statement of a foreign news agency in conjunction with the composite interview of Pope Francis….
Viewpoints
Lopsided win By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE anticipated close match between the LNU Dukes and UPang-PHINMA Flames in the championship games proved to be a mismatch. The raging Dukes of Atty. Gonzalo Duque showed once more to us basketball buffs that they are indisputably superior and supreme in…
Sports Eye
It’s about R-E-S-P-E-C-T By Johanne Margarette R. Macob I REMEMBER almost a year ago, I wrote about plagiarism here. I started it out with: “When I entered college, the very tenets instilled to us were that of ‘Honor and Excellence’. Honor first before excellence, for without the former, the…
Young Roots
Fisherfolks are mad at fishpens’ dismantling report By Jun Velasco “Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in abundance of his possessions, “Luke 12:15 TYPHOON Odette was slamming Dagupan when we wrote this last Friday. Btw, storms don’t make news…
Think about it
Remembering the late Paco By Gonzalo Duque SAN FRANCISCO, California—We missed a lengthy meeting with our Dagupeno politician in Milpitas City, Mayor Joe “Bogs” Esteves. It’s election season in the U.S., and Bogs is busy as a bee running for mayor. What Fil-Ams and the Americans are following here…
Playing with Fire
Ludicrously easy By Al S. Mendoza AS expected, Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeated Saul “Canelo” Alvarez by decision. What I didn’t expect was he did it so ludicrously easy. He is 36 years old already but still, he didn’t just move like a wind. He moved like a howler, a…
General Admission
The congressman’s lost pork By Bebot Villar I’M sure na mamumuti na ang mga mata ng mga newly elected congressmen dahil yong inaasahan nilang “return on investment” ay gone with the wind na. Kuwarta na, naging bato pa! Naloko na. Napasubo na sila sa expenses for the 2013 election…
Deretsahan
So Sad But So True By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD GIVEN the avaricious as well as scandalous reign of the previous administration, it was thought that nothing worse could ever happen in the same way that everything right and proper was expected to take place as a matter of…




