Using technicality to serve the wrong By Ermin Garcia Jr. The suspension order of the provincial board meted to Anda Mayor Nestor Pulido reminds us of the way the Department of Justice prosecutors sought the dismissal of the case vs. the “Alabang Boys” – the use of a seeming lapse…
World crosses fingers with Obama’s rise By Jun Velasco MOST Americans and people around the world are still pinching their skin to make sure it’s a black American president who has just ascended the stage and now speaking to them these days. What’s more, Barack Obama got elected leader of…
Think about it
Sister Luz’s fine example By Gonzalo Duque WHAT happened to our colleague and Mayor of Anda Nestor Beltran- Pulido is a pure case of political harassment. We wish to warn those who conspired to have him suspended for one month due to a technical error, mali ata pinanggalingan ng pera…
Playing with Fire
Fiesta time, reunion time By Al S. Mendoza YOU forget your roots, you forget your loved ones – yourself. You grew up loving things, places – people. You just don’t forget them. Stick to them like lovers do to their mates. You’ll never go wrong. In my case, pinakbet’s the…
General Admission
Rice varieties for drought-prone areas By Dr. Sosimo Ma. Pablico MORE THAN 1 million hectares of ricefields in the Philippines are drought-prone. Farmers in these areas normally suffer from long periods without rain that should provide the much needed water for their rice crops. In many instances, yields are low…
Harvest Time
Personal commitment By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. One day, someone committed the gross official blunder of attempting to consummate a memorandum of agreement on the ancestral domain of the Moro People that would in effect convert the territory into an expanded and basically independent homeland within the territorial confines…
Viewpoints
RP cyclists support Hiso’s group By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE new set of officers of the Integrated Cycling Federation of the Philippines, better known as PhilCycling, under the wings of Rolando Hiso, invited me to observe the inaugural race they held on January 17 at the Quezon Memorial Circle….
Sports Eye
What are little boys made of? By Emmanuelle Of little tin cars, plastic pop pistols, bicycles and skates, bugs and bloody noses. Pretty little girls in pretty little frocks do not belong to their league, unless the little girls come themselves with little tin cars, plastic pop pistols, bicycles and…
Feelings
Dagupenos deserve the inmates’ s_ _t By Ermin Garcia Jr. The degradation of the beach and environment at the Tondaligan Park in Dagupan City continues with impunity. The human wastes of the detainees at the Dagupan District Jail continue to be dumped into the beach water daily like nobody’s business….




