Lina line By Al S. Mendoza I MAINTAIN that Joey Lina remains the key to ending the country’s basketball impasse. I say that again in the wake of recent calls to make Rudy Salud referee the POC-BAP rift in a last-ditch bid to toss the ailing sport back to the…
The exciting third district political fight By Eva Visperas The political pot in Pangasinan is brewing, in third district that is. And from what we hear, next year’s elections could be the most expensive for the candidates. It could be the hottest, too. Of course, as soon as the 2004…
Mini-combine harvests rice faster and easier By Sosimo Ma. Pablico A small combine harvester developed by agricultural engineers of PhilRice [Philippine Rice Research Institute] now makes rice harvesting faster and easier as it performs four tasks simultaneously in one operation. The new machine is a modification of a 1.2 meter…
Commendation-absolution-preemption By +Oscar V. Cruz This early, there is already something confusing and disturbing that is taking place between the administration and the Melo Commission it brought to existence. Even before the commission formally starts its task of eventually identifying those responsible for the political abductions and killings in the…
Led by the nose By Emmanuelle A story went that upon seeing their daughter’s first born, this grandma nodded to grandpa and said “this child truly is of our clan. It has our characteristic bulbous nose and wide, flaring nostrils”. Then, both looked disapprovingly down their noses at their daughter’s…
Dagupan officials should hide in shame! By Ermin Garcia Jr. We are not a bit surprised by the recent 2005 report of the Commission on Audit listing Dagupan City as being kulelat in standing among the cities in terms of net income not only in Pangasinan but in Ilocos Region!…
Last resort for ‘survival’? By Gerry Garcia THE paranoid’s obsession for PGMA’s impeachment dating back to days after the ’04 presidential elections when she was pitted against the immensely popular but rather reluctant bet FPJ . . . is, hopefully, on the way out following the 2nd impeachment complaint’s being…
Sec. Arthur Yap is a Dagupeño By Jun Velasco MAYOR Benjie Lim, we’re sure, meant well when he had all those streamers “Dagupan City Must be Jueteng-free” strung all over the city’s strategic street corners, but some naughty wags are quick to twist its meaning to mean that they (streamers)…
Men that matter By Al S. Mendoza ONE CAPTURED THE IMAGINATION of the world, the other the Philippines. American billionaire Warren E. Buffett has made one stupendous move for mankind when he donated almost more than three-fourths of his fortune to charity. That was some weeks ago. Just very recently,…
Conversation with a 100-year old ‘Miss Dagupan’ By Eva C. Visperas I’m sure everyone wants to have a long life, except maybe those who have piles of insurmountable problems and are already losing hope that they will ever overcome their miseries. We all have our worst times. But just hang…
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