Adios amigo Romeo By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. BEFORE lunch on January 11, I was stunned and shocked after receiving a text message and a call from media colleague Freddie Fajardo of Aksyon Radio Pangasinan. He informed me that my friend and co-cyclist Romeo Bonzo, while riding his motorcycle, met…
Keeping up the fight for good governance By Ermin Garcia Jr. I have no doubt in my mind that Dagupan City Mayor Benjie Lim and his ilk already find his vice mayor to be pesky, troublesome, irritating, a total asshole and an ingrate. But Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez should take…
Two and three-wheeled hazards in open road By Gerry Garcia WITH the season of joy and goodwill barely over, we’re in no mood to grapple in this column with the complex and often confused issues relating to former President Erap’s long running detention (or vacation?) at his sprawling rest-house in…
Watch your public official By Jun Velasco THERE is a quiet outrage among Dagupeños who get their regular dose of graft and corruption reports about the conduct and behavior of officials they have elected to run the city affairs. Since not many of them are lawyers and can hardly see…
More on the DCNHS dream By Gonzalo Duque MS. LINDA Magno is in town. One of the most sought-after lady singers in the 60’s up to the 80’s, Atchi Linda, now Mrs. Cloutier, will entertain old friends and the local media at the family residence along Rizal street, beside the…
Agbayani for senator? “Spine” vs the doktora? By Al S. Mendoza I WAS TOLD that Governor Agbayani is set to run for senator. Or, let’s put it this way: Ate Glue wants Governor Vic to be in the administration senatorial slate in the coming May polls. “I think Vic should…
Ready for the Talong Festival By Eva C. Visperas This agricultural town, Villasis, known as the “Vegetable Bowl of Pangasinan”, is ready to stage its second Talong Festival on January 19 in time for the town’s 200th year foundation and town fiesta celebration. Mayor Nonato Abrenica told this corner and…
Junked rice breeding material turns out to be an asset By Sosimo Ma. Pablico Junks may not be totally useless if something is done to make them beneficial to man. One good example is the improved IR58025B where the IRBB lines of IRRI [International Rice Research Institute] were used as…
Reformist, Nationalist, Populist By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. There are marked indications that the 2004 midterm elections are key to the future of this country. Since the texture of the present administration there is an on-going long litany of big socio-moral reversals and scandals with their consequent ugly and…
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