The Old and the New By Emmanuelle This week’s article was written while waiting for the Cebu Pacific flight to Mindanao, the fabled land of promises. You see, before this writer plans to lay her head down to a sleep where there is no awakening, there is this standing promise…
My favorite characters in action By Ermin Garcia Jr. What appeared to be a simple confusion over a seemingly normal business transaction inside the city hall now appears to be the tip of an iceberg that’s about to thaw and flood the city officials’ rooms. I am talking about the…
Pacman in the political ring By Gerry Garcia OUTgoing Gov. Victor Agbayani’s wifey Dr. Jamie Manzano will probably have Speaker JdV’s blessings as LAKAS-CMD’s standard bearer in Pangasinan… to the utter disappointment of VG Oscar Lambino, who naturally had expected to get Joe’s okay for him to run for the…
Questionable episodes in Pangasinan history? By Jun Velasco TWO controversial episodes in our history books that require immediate and permanent clarification from responsible historians are those of Princess Urduja and Juan dela Cruz Palaris. Our governor’s official residence is named “Princess Urduja” and yet most historians have junked the name…
Saludo ako kay Dolphy at Susan Roces By Gonzalo Duque POLITICS, the most attractive and yet most poisonous preoccupation of our people, is reaching fever pitch because of the May elections. In Dagupan (please do not begrudge me and my publisher, for writing often about Dagupan being the microcosm of…
Political parties are like clothes By Al S. Mendoza UP TO NOW, I’m still surprised why many of you are surprised seeing politicians changing parties every now and then. Don’t tell me you were born yesterday. How many times have I told you that’s part of the ball game? An…
Sunset Valentine’s Day wedding By Eva C. Visperas The world-famous Hundred Islands here has been proven once more as the most romantic place in Pangasinan as 160 couples exchanged their sweet “I do’s” and made their own version of Lovapalooza on Valentine’s Day. The brides wore white gowns while the…
Aggie, rural economy problems as a whole beset the rice sector By Sosimo Ma. Pablico The rice sector is beset by a microcosm of problems ailing agriculture and the rural economy as a whole that policy makers must understand in a comprehensive manner, according to Dr. Arsenio M. Balisacan and…
Love By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. Valentine’s Day in its genuine significance and sound implications is but a mere concrete expression of the commandment of love. Love is not an option. It is mandatory upon all. Nevertheless, the reality of love becomes more felt and expressed between a man…
The annals of Mangaldan bikefest By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. MARCH 14, 1974 was the day when the first Mangaldan town fiesta bikefest was held. It was a project of the late Mangaldan hizzoner sports fanatic Atty. Macario G. Ydia, exclusively participated in by Pangasinan cyclists and dubbed as the…
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