Salt business knocking on Guv’s doorstep By Al S. Mendoza I think it was late last year when Euclid G. Forbes went to Lingayen to meet up with Raffy Baraan. For my unabashed love for Pangasinan, I had arranged that meeting. I was supposed to join that meeting but I…
Dagupan, hello? By Bebot Villar NAGPAKITANG gilas ang bagong regional director ng Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Region 1 na si Col. Roybel Sanchez sa pagkaka aresto ng dalawang babaeng drug couriers from Pasay City. September 4 nang mangyari ang one of the biggest drug haul sa isang buy-bust operation…
Verticalist Preachers By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD THE very words “verticalism” and horizontalism” readily evoke radicalism such that one automatically excludes the other. Just as what is verticalist necessarily excludes that which is horizontal, so too what is horizontalist ipso facto does away with anything vertical. Both terms – with…
Alibis and finger-pointing By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. IF you read my column in the August 19-25 issue, I asserted then that our national sports leaders will surely make some alibis ending up finger-pointing on who’s supposed to be blamed for the below-par performance of our national athletes in the…
Impambaroy ed Luyag na Panay Nen Santiago Villafania MABETBET no onkaili ak ed sakey e lugar ono pasen, saray sumusulat tan umaanlong so uunaen kon pakabatan. Tan dia’d impanwaywayak ya agano ed Iloilo tan Capiz dia’d luyag na Panay nen imbeneg a bulan na Agosto akapituyawan ko ira di Luis…
Clothing revolution By Johanne Margarette R. Macob THERE are different ways to convey one’s identity – traditions, beliefs, language, and clothing are some. Clothing bares the fantasy within one’s psyche while it fends one’s body, expressing what one wants as well as what one doesn’t like. And most, if…
New unwitting conspirators By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE “P1.5M Onor-onors” have the honor of being the first line of conspirators in Dagupan Mayor Benjie Lim’s “value engineering” schemes, the hospital scheme being the latest. Now comes the second line. Mr. Lim surreptitiously schemed to drag the unsuspecting members…
American politics and Abraham Lincoln By Jun Velasco “Man perfected by society is the best of all animals, he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice,” Aristotle EASILY, the world’s focal interest nowadays is the forthcoming US presidential elections this coming November. According…
Judge Maramba’s decision hailed By Gonzalo Duque LAST Friday, Judge Genoveva Maramba came out with a decision in favor of the local colleges and universities’ opposition to the city government’s tax imposition. Decision was anchored on the non-existence of an ordinance to tax our humble business establishments dedicated to the…
Luck, plus miracle, made us win the Jones Cup in Taipei By Al S. Mendoza WE went to war half-prepared. That’s because we practiced only two weeks before plunging to action. Still, we won. Tsun Tzu might be turning in his grave. The author of The Art of War, if…
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