Garci forever By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. There are times when there is uncertainty whether people should jump for joy or cry shamelessly in the presence of a given reality. This is precisely the case of the Garci phenomenon that is once again given prominence in the national consciousness…
Why are the Siapno cousins ominously silent? By Ermin Garcia Jr. In the spirit of the New Year, I’d like to begin with the good news first. A conscience bloc has finally surfaced from within the Dagupan City Sanggunian. Manning the frontlines are Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez, Majority Floor Leader…
Sudden fires, blast mayhem greet the New Year By Gerry Garcia BARELY days before the count-down reaches the zero hour (12 on the dot between today and tomorrow) we’re getting hotter news about fires suddenly breaking out in rapid succession in various places in the country and the increase in…
A meaningful Rizal Day observance By Jun Velasco RIZAL Day yesterday did not just come to pass. Yes, unlike in many observances past when meaningless rhetoric filled the air ad nauseaum. There was felt a kind of yearning for a liberator, a Philippine hero to appear on the scene, to…
Happy New Year! By Al S. Mendoza THE GOOD Book said: “Each year his parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was 12 years old, they went up according to festival custom. “After they had completed its days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus…
You know there’s election when… By Eva C. Visperas So, every aspirant in the coming May 2007 elections is now on his or her toes, trying, of course, to please almost everyone to gain those precious votes. Well, that’s one good thing I like about elections. Interested candidates, even the…
DOSEPCO, a model in hybrid rice subsidy abolition By Sosimo Ma. Pablico Even as the subsidy for hybrid rice production is now about to end, members of the Davao Oriental Seed Producers Cooperative [DOSEPCO] in Banaybanay, Davao Oriental remain as aggressive as before in producing the much needed seeds of…
In the spirit of Christmas By Ermin Garcia Jr. I was about to start pounding on my laptop’s keyboard for this issue’s “Punchline” when I caught myself just in time. I remembered that this week is start of Christmas holiday and the fiesta proper of Dagupan City’s ridiculous 31-day long…
No bogey behind the Cha-Cha By Gerry Garcia WE’RE betting our last shirt on the need and extreme urgency for charter reform as expressed by Speaker Joe de Venecia, former newsman and veteran law-maker who, we can safely presume, is familiar with the ins and outs of civil governance in…
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