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Harvest Time

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Bright days ahead for eggplant growers By Dr. Sosimo Ma. Pablico IN MANY RAINFED FARMS in Ilocos Region, the wet season rice is followed after a short fallow period by hybrid corn and vegetables, as the farmers can no longer produce another rice crop during the dry season. Among the…

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Harvest Time

By January 6, 2009Archives, Opinion

Viewpoints

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Politics and politicians By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. AS COMMONLY known, politics is the art of governance or the science concerned with the form, organization and administration of government. The fact alone that it is an “art” or a “science” clearly says if not immediately implies that politics is…

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Viewpoints

By January 6, 2009Archives, Opinion

Sports Eye

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The year that was in Pangasinan sports By Jesus Garcia Jr.   A HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone. Hopefully 2009 will be fruitful, peaceful, glorious and prosperous to all of us. Year 2008 I believe is rewarding to most of our local athletes who competed in our region, national and…

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Sports Eye

By January 6, 2009Opinion, Sports Eye

Feelings

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A new leaf is a birth is a new leaf . . . By Emmanuelle   The native recognizes a fellow-native. One does not have to be a native of the mountain (and plateau, valley, terraced fields, etc.) by blood and birth. One needs only to have loved and lived…

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Feelings

By January 6, 2009Feelings, Opinion

Punchline

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Take a bow! By Ermin Garcia Jr. As we end the year, allow me to take a leave from my “watchdog” duties this one time and indulge in some “feel good” developments in the province for a change. There is no doubt in anybody’s mind that, indeed, Guv Spines is…

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Punchline

By December 30, 2008Opinion, Punchline

Think about it

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Senatoriables Pingkoy and Joey 3 By Jun Velasco WHILE the world outlook is dimmed by the collapse of the US economy, there is hardly any come-from-behind effort by our national leaders to cushion the coming hardship. Worse, we tend to be like the ostrich that buries its head in the…

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Think about it

By December 30, 2008Archives, Opinion

Harvest Time

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Ilocos Region scion develops cheap soil analysis method By Dr. Sosimo Ma. Pablico LITTLE IS KNOWN that the Ilocos Region has produced a nationally known agriculture scientist who has developed an easy, fast, and cheap method of assessing soil fertility in irrigated rice farms that small rice farmers themselves can…

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Harvest Time

By December 30, 2008Archives, Opinion

Viewpoints

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Season of renewal By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. It has become customary—either as a joke or a resolve—to make the so called “New Year’s Resolution” in view of the forthcoming parting of ways between the “old” and “new” year. In plain and simple words, there is in spirit the…

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Viewpoints

By December 30, 2008Archives, Opinion