The lure of Lomibao By Al S. Mendoza OUR LOVE affair with elections is as old as your town cemetery. That’s why when Marcos killed elections with his martial law in 1972, the people hated him. They didn’t show it, but deep within their hearts, they mourned the death of…
Feel like a president of the Philippines By Eva C. Visperas I received an invitation from San Fabian Mayor Jaming Libunao to come for a small talk, together with Violy Ferrer of Aksyon Radyo, Cesar Ramirez of the Philippine STAR, Ding Micua of the Philippines News Agency. We were to…
Soil scientist corrects notion on organic farming By Sosimo Ma. Pablico CONTRARY to the claims of some sectors, there are no such things as organic rice, organic vegetable and organic fruit, according to a senior consultant of PhilRice [Philippine Rice Research Institute] who served earlier as a professor at UP…
Psychological incapacity +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. Time and again, there is talk about the annulment of marriage especially among movie personalities with failed conjugal unions. And such talk is usually accompanied with the phrase “psychological incapacity” as the usual ground for marriage annulment before the local civil courts concerned….
Knowing GenVel, then and now By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I WAS not surprised at all when the retired PNP Deputy Director Reynaldo V. Velasco phoned me last month to confirm that the one year old planned bicycle road race will become a reality. I have known the guy since…
Twining By Emmanuelle And we end our focus on true twin stories with this last pair: Candy and Cindy were born of a Filipino father and an American mother, both Protestant missionaries and visiting university professors. As the case was with parents such as theirs, the twins grew up traipsing…
Wanted: a new JDV legacy By Ermin Garcia Jr. Finally outflanked and out-maneuvered. And surprisingly, for someone politically astute, Speaker Joe de V did not see that coming. Don’t look now but the plot to double-cross the Speaker in GMA-vintage fashion is beginning to surface. Note how Executive Sec….
Raul’s Sigaw: SC should deal with law not fact By Gerry Garcia THE Dawel-Pantal-Lucao diversion road meant to divert traffic around the traffic-congested city will end up, upon completion, at the new center of congestion in the Tapuac CSI Warehouse area. It’s here where bumper-to-bumper traffic is unavoidable due to…
A few lessons from the China visit By Jun Velasco AS SOON as he stepped down from the Presidential Plane from China, San Carlos City Mayor Jolly Resuello, who was in the President’s Party, along with Congressman Gener Tulagan and a few others, called up just to exult how deeply…
Political scenarios in Dagupan City By Gonzalo Duque SOME of my friends called up to say that my column article last week was not in tune with my fiery style. Forgive me, but my topic then was education, and the seriousness of the subject compelled me to be formal and…
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