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…
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…
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…
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…
More on JDV and his bio-book By Gonzalo Duque IT isn’t bad at all to read from time to time the analyses and interpretations of seer Jojo Acuin of events especially those that have yet to happen. There are really gifted people who can know in advance what will happen….
Political faces for 2010 By Al S. Mendoza THIS early, reports are rife that Joe de Venecia will run for governor of Pangasinan in 2010. I am not surprised. Joe DV has been a politician all his life that I can’t imagine him being a simple private citizen after he…
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…
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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