PNoy promotes bicycling By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. TWICE we read in our national broadsheets and saw that our president PNoy was having fun riding his mountain bike. He did not say that bicycling is his favorite sport but averred that he usually rides a bike because it helps him…
Revisiting May By Emmanuelle THIS year as in the past decade, the people of this town celebrate their fiesta in January. It has not always been so. They used to have their fiesta in May, when the native kalkalautit, sharing the landscape with the ancient acacias, let go of their…
Guv Spines’ “staggered” option By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE decision of Guv Spines to endorse the “staggered payment scheme” as “recommended” by the Liga ng mga Barangay led by his brother, is clearly an indication that the controversial ordinance increasing the real property tax in the province by as much…
Bayambang’s epic role recalled By Jun Velasco ‘To thine own self be true – William Shakespeare WE rejoined our colleagues at Rembrandt’s Balitaan last Friday to have a new glimpse of the nation as the Manila media viewed it. We’re happy to be back in league again with Bulletin’s Jun Icban, moderator Erick San Juan,…
Play it your way By Gonzalo Duque NO self-respecting educator should be seen shopping around begging for endorsements so that he would keep his post though how odious his term is. We say this in response to the prayers and clamor of the faculty and students of the Pangasinan State University who expressed alarm…
Pacquiao fights poverty, not a friend By Al S. Mendoza (Happy birthday today, Sunday, to May Uy, the beautiful wife of Ramon Uy of Bacolod City.) * * * I was wrong on two counts. First, I said Manny Pacquiao will knock Shane Mosley out. Second, I said Mosley will…
“Divide et impera” By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD TIME and again, it is clearly and repeatedly said that there is smoke in Malacañang. And as the saying rightly goes, where there is smoke, there is fire. And where there is fire, there is danger. In other words, there are open…
What a shame, Mosley By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. IF you saw the fight, I believe you were also disgusted. The verdict was undeniably right, a clear victory for Pacman, but we can consider the fight one of the dullest of Paquiao since he reached stardom. But please don’t blame…
No more Mr. Cool Guys? By Ermin Garcia Jr. SOMEBODY punched a hole in the dam…and the oodles of money leaking out from the jai-alai operations are taking its toll on friends and allies in the Capitol! Just when I thought nothing could set Guv Spines and Bokal Alfie apart,…
We remember Jolly Resuello By Jun Velasco “I have fought a good fight …” Paul, 2 Timothy 4:3 WE first met Jolly Resuello one summer day in 1969 at a Calasiao residence. Chubby, ebullient, carefree with a gentle heart, he was with Bebot Lomibao, son of the late former Mayor Juan Lomibao,…
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