Well-organized Pangasinan chess tilt By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. SELDOM do I watch a chess tournament because honestly it’s not really my sport. I don’t know much about this mental game, but I do enjoy watching it especially if there are grandmaster players participating in a tourney. And that’s…
Palikuer ed paliagan Nen Santiago Villafania IPAPANEKNEK kon lanang ed saray kaluyagan laut la’d saray wala ni’d kalangweran iran sumusulat ya say bilay na sakey a salita wala’d mabunan litiratura. Say kuritan ono litiratura so kamarerua na pinabli tin luyag. Tekep tonia so kulturan pakabirbiran na inka-Pangasinan tayo.
Aristos
Election 101: The dos and don’ts By Johanne Margarette R. Macob INDEED, time has passed so fleetly that tomorrow (again, tomorrow) we – or at least more than 1.6 million of us Pangasinenses, among millions other Filipinos – will be exercising our rights to suffrage. Apart from a checklist of our chosen candidates,…
Young Roots
Black propaganda via SMS By Ermin Garcia Jr. TEXT messages alleging wrongdoing and illegal activities of candidates are dime a dozen these days. Allegations of foreign citizenship, ill-gotten wealth, frail health, immoral lives, womanizing, violent background, smuggling, drug trafficking and addiction, school drop-out, mental ailment, rape, swindling, etc. are…
Punchline
The art of lying By Jun Velasco “I had rather my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me,” Beatrice in Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing SOME people did not want the President’s Thursday visit here a total success in terms of a vast red carpet welcome…
Think about it
Corruption of Dagupenos By Gonzalo Duque THIS is our second-to-the-last column before election day. We’re happy to have participated in the exercise of enlightening the public on matters of great and grave concern. Locally, we have made our arguments clear on our advocacy- why we are not voting for…
Playing with Fire
God called upon to decide the winner By Al S. Mendoza I will not be surprised if Floyd Mayweather Jr. wins today. But I will not be surprised, though, if he loses. Robert Guerrero is called “The Ghost” because his speed keeps his opponent hitting wind most of the…
General Admission
Protocol for presidential visits By Bebot Villar MAY mga natuwa, may mga nainis sa last visit ni President Aquino sa Pangasinan last May 2. In the first place, why was he here? Firstly, to inaugurate a 1.6 kilometer Lingayen-Binmaley bypass road sa Barangay Quibaol, Lingayen. Ayon sa Pangulo, symbol ito…
Deretsahan
Social Benefits of Ethics and Morals By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD THE difference between what is right to be done and what is wrong to be avoided according to the dictate of reason – this is ethics. The distinction between what is virtuous to be observed and what is…
Viewpoints
Colorful and successful Pista’y Dayat festival By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. LAST year I deliberately did not attend Pangasinan’s annual and widely acclaimed Pista’y Dayat celebration, avoiding the scorching heat that may cause me to suffer a heat stroke, but I dared to go to Lingayen this time with…




