Toasting Mr. Avenger and Mr. Spademan By Ermin Garcia Jr. The man of the hour inside Dagupan City government is City legal officer George Mejia. He is now in the thick of investigating the controversial acquisitions of the previous Lim administration, stumbling upon the deception and the conspiracy that accompanied…
Rats in gov’t still playing while cats are not looking By Gerry Garcia THE pronouncement of the guilty verdict on ex-President Erap Estrada was made late morning of last Wednesday, also a day devoted to national prayer for unity and reconciliation, wasn’t even half exciting here as in Metro Manila…
Bebot Villar next BoC chief? By Jun Velasco WATCHING Joey de Venecia III throw those gentle swings at controversial Comelec chairman Ben Abalos reminds us of his boyhood, when we’d act as his escort to some social obligations (mostly of the congressman) of his erpat, then oil-man businessman Joe de…
Scrap the SK By Gonzalo Duque KUDOS to the student leaders who in a recent conference in Baguio City made a position paper to scrap the Sangguniang Kabataan from our political system. The young leaders probably saw that the SK was doing our youth more harm than good. Santisima! Have…
Pacquiao is No. 1 turncoat By Al S. Mendoza MANNY Pacquiao is presently proving himself to be the country’s No. 1 turncoat. Do you know what he had just done? He left ABS-CBN for GMA-7. He gave no reason for the transfer. Now I know why Pacquiao deserted the Philippine…
Late but Not Outdone By Sosimo Ma. Pablico BEING LATE IN A LEARNING SITUATION does not necessarily mean that it would be difficult to catch up with those who started from the very beginning, as shown by a 76 year old farmer who has produced the highest and second highest…
From nine down to four By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THIS year’s Southeast Asia (SEA) Games is just around the corner. Compared to the first and second times we hosted this biennial meet, the third time, which was held again in Manila in December 2005, was a very different story….
Never say Never! By Emmanuelle Same feathers, same bird. Birds of same feathers flock together. Trace it way back to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, this habit of collecting together a set of subjects sharing a common feature, or sets of features attributed to one subject, then converting these…
THE Milo Little Olympics for Luzon, now on its 10th season, unwraps on September 21 at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center in Lingayen. The annual multi-sporting event for17 year-old students and below will be played in different categories with huge cash prizes, trophies and medals at stake for…
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