No shortage of critics By Al S. Mendoza THERE ARE no bragging rights this time. I was right in the sense that in the case at hand, things really happen all the time. This world has no shortage of critics, oppositionists. They’d always sprout like mushrooms anytime of the…
It was worth the long wait! By Eva C. Visperas It was a great birthday gift he received but above all, it was a dream come true for Chief Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil who finally got the much-coveted post as Philippine National Police’s Ilocos Regional Director. Bataoil, now 53 having turned…
Tungro-resistant Matatag rice varieties By Sosimo Ma. Pablico THE tungro virus disease is a very serious pest of rice such that it can cause heavy damages on standing rice crops. It is transmitted by green leafhoppers as they feed on the rice plants. That is if the insects have been…
Judicial stature By + Oscar V. Cruz D.D. It is not a secret that the present administration has a low judicial standing. This is well shown by the number of times the Supreme Court decidedly quashed its many attempts to arrogate power beyond its competence. It is somehow funny that…
The Queen’s gambit and the nurses By Ermin Garcia Jr. FOR a while, I honestly thought the flip-flopping of President Arroyo finally came to an end when she decided that the Court of Appeal’s decision would finally take precedence over everything else. In fact, when the appellate court decided to…
Working for a common good By Gerry Garcia FINALLY after countless decades, this city’s long harassed pedestrians will be given the chance to cut through formidable traffic in the narrow streets of the city to the other side with nary a hassle. Dagupan’s superman in the House, Speaker JDV, has…
Mayor Resuello’s political odyssey By Jun Velasco MAYOR Jolly Resuello’s rise in local politics is like surviving a snake pit. Veteran politicians say that it’s tougher to win local electoral battles than in the national level. We doff our hat to the successful players because they have survived, hurdled and…
Injustice By Gonzalo Duque IT’S easily the scourge of the century in this country. The utterly sad fate that befell the 2006 batch of nursing board passers is unending. Most of us who have followed the series of events vis a vis the ill-fated nursing exams have been helplessly watching…
Bayambang mayor deserves praise & support By Al S. Mendoza TRADITION is the hardest to kick. Take the sanitary landfill being mulled in Bayambang. Since it is an entirely new thing, expect critics to come forward. But I’m not about to join them. For one, the times tell us to…
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