When good men do nothing By Bebot Villar NAGKA-ALAMAN na who are the candidates for various positions in the May 2013 elections. Pero, hindi pa ito final dahil pwede pa ang substitution by the party until December 21. Kaya there’s still a chance for someone to convince another to join…
Philippine Politics By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD PHILIPPINE Politics is curious and intriguing, interesting and entertaining – and particularly detestable as well as disgusting. Philippine politics is not simply for the vicious but also for the avaricious, not merely for those wanting to serve but the more so, for those…
Viewpoints
Hail to the Pangasinan team and Gov. Espino By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. FIRSTLY, my sincerest congratulations to our Pangasinan contingent that bagged the overall team championship in the just concluded Northern Luzon qualifying leg of the POC-PSC-backed Batang Pinoy Games. Of course, congratulations are also due to our sports-minded…
Sports Eye
PEN conference tan arum ni’ra Nen Santiago Villafania NEN Disiembri 2010 kaiba tan sakey ak ed saray angiparungtal na papil a pankuritan para ed Philippine PEN International Conference ya agawa ed Cebu. Binasak ed saman a tulagan ono conference so salaysay kon “Pangasinan Anlong: Oral Tradition into the 21st Century”….
Aristos
Substitution By Jun Velasco “The most potent muse of all is our own inner child,” Stephen Nachmanovitch THURSDAY might, we had a “workshop” by the Chatanooga pool at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center in Lingayen with Philippine Sports Commissioner Jolly Gomez and Governor Amado Espino Jr. as “resource speakers.”…
Think about it
Tanga! By Gonzalo Duque OUR Pangasinan Press Club will have as its guest of honor on October 30 the country’s media czar, fellow Rotarian Sec. Herminio “Sonny” Coloma. He is Gov. Amado “Spines” Espino’s guest, too, and the Rotarians led by Assistant Gov. Fred Caguioa of the Rotary Club of Downtown…
Playing with Fire
Championship games make us kids again By Al S. Mendoza WHO expected University of Sto. Tomas to win the 2012 UAAP basketball title? Only Pido Jarencio, the UST coach. Oh, wait a minute, Pido’s mother, too. Thus, if Pido is still weeping in his Nanay’s laps, understood. Never mind if…
General Admission
Comedy act of Lim By Bebot Villar SAANG planeta ba galing itong nagta-tapang tapangan na kalaban ni Congresswoman Gina de Venecia? Nang mag-file itong si Mario Lim ng kanyang candidacy for Pangasinan fourth district congressman, sari-saring reaction ang mga tao, especially from the media na nakatutok sa Commission on Elections…
Deretsahan
Triumphalism By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD THE word as such does not even appear in standard dictionaries. There are terms such as “triumph”, “triumphal”, and even “triumphalist”. But the word “triumphalism” seems illusive. Yet, the truth conveyed by the term is not hard to decipher and wherefore not exactly unknown…




