The DILG should act on BSL’s health update! By Gonzalo Duque UP to last Friday—our column writing deadline—or more than one week after the midterm elections, makulimlim pa rin ang panahon tungkol sa health update ng ating outgoing mayor BSL. Hindi pa rin malinaw ang natatanggap nating bali-balita tungkol…
Where the heart beats best, stay there By Al S. Mendoza IT can’t be helped that wounds brought on by defeats in the last elections are still too fresh to ignore. After all, we are human beings. We have feelings. We can be hurt. We can’t heal that easily. …
Ominous Signs By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD THERE is the fact that graft and corrupt practices in the country have already become ingrained specially in government from the national to the local levels – notwithstanding all rhetorical negations and artistic postures to the contrary. There is also the standing…
A drug-free Dagupan By Bebot Villar QUIET na ang kapaligiran ngayon. Finally, tapos na ang mga mudslinging, character assassination, black propaganda, hate campaign pati na rin ang kantiyawan (hopefully). Matira ang matibay ang labanan. Like they say, kung mahina ang sikmura, don’t get into politics. Besides it being too…
Pangasinan athletes’ standing plummets By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I BELIEVE year 2013 is not so lucky for us as far as our athletes in national competitions are concerned. Sports like cycling, considered as one of the favorite games of Pangasinenses, obviously declined this year after losing the Le Tour…
Panpipilalekan Nen Santiago Villafania AKAPASYAR ak ed Post Office dia ed Lawton nen Martis, a-21 na Mayo tan say pegdat ko komun diman et mangaliw na stamps nipaakar ed Pangasinan. Amtak a wala’ra’y sipur lan imprinta da nen saman: Hundred Islands, lighthouse na Bolinao, simbaan na Mangaldan, tan dakel…
The Lims’ privacy By Ermin Garcia Jr. “THANKFULLY, his (Mayor Benjamin Lim’s) condition was stabilized and he was transferred to a Manila hospital for further treatment.” These were the words of Councilor (now Vice Mayor-elect) Brian Lim to refute our earlier announcement that his father had passed away last…
Mayor –elect Belen to restore consultative governance By Jun Velasco “The measure of a man’s greatness is not in the number of servants he has, but in the number of people he serves” – E.C. Mckenzie WITH the midterm elections over, we can now go back to some…
Guv’nor Espino, a confirmed ‘murderer’ (hehe) By Gonzalo Duque CONGRATULATIONS, Gov. Spines! And, yes, Vice Gov. Ferdie Calimlim! Now, it can be told. The Gov. is a “murderer.” He murdered his opponent, outgoing Mayor Nani Braganza, with a voting margin of something like 530,000! Wow, wow, wow! Sabi da, it’s just…
The poor won – and then what? By Al S. Mendoza SO, did your bets win? Mine did. Many of them, anyways. Ted Cruz won a third term as mayor of my beloved hometown, Mangatarem. Cheers, pare! Pol Bataoil won a second term as congressman of my beloved second…
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