By Jesus. A. Garcia Jr. I had planned on traveling to Bocaue, Bulacan to watch the opening day of the much-awaited FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 at Philippine Arena. But I changed my mind after reading a news report that the opening salvo of the double-header games will be…
By Rex Catubig IT’S a question of chronology: Which came first– the Music Warehouse in Perez or the UPS in MH del Pilar? What was certain was they ushered in the revival of the dance club–called disco in those days– at the break of the year 2000, and filled…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. OUR frontpage drone photo shows a small area of continued operations of more than thousands of illegal fish pens in and around the city’s island barangays! I bet only a few are aware that the continued operations of these point to the massive corruption and…
By Leonardo Micua THE observation shared by retired DPWH District Engineer Rodolfo “Boy” Dion during a public consultation in the Sangguniang Panlungsod that the Pantal-Sinocalan River has already become too narrow because of encroachments by property owners is something that cannot be dismissed or ignored. Dion believes that one…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I was going to meet Alma Cruz Miclat to watch a Special Concert in memory of Kerima Lorena Tariman, resistance fighter and poet, who perished in an encounter with the 79th Infantry Battalion on 20 August 2021. She was branded by the government as a…
By Farah G. Decano IF I were governor, I would be very much concerned about the recurring floods in Districts 2, 3, and 4 of Pangasinan. I will make sure that, under my watch, no Pangasinan resident would say that I did not take this matter seriously. If I…
By Eva C. Visperas THE past month made me wonder why tricycles along Sta. Barbara-Urdaneta and another along San Fabian-Damortis (La Union) national highways take the outer or shoulder lanes. At first, I could hardly believe it. Was it real? Were there cops around? “Wow, this is amazing,” I…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. MORNING of August 14, I received a text message from my co-cyclist and ex-Philippine national team member Gerry Amar of Metro Manila informing me that the 1994 Teheran, Iran Asian Cycling Championship gold medalist and Marlboro Tour veteran Rodolfo “Totoy” Plaza had passed away…
By Rex Catubig AS the monsoon month gives way to longer rainless afternoons, at around three o’clock in our tranquil barrio of Calmay, across the river from baley, we kids are routinely roused from our mandatory nap by the sonorous shout of an itinerant vendor. The old woman whom…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. LAST week, the sun was out. The city streets were dry. Stores were open. Cars, jeepneys, tricycles and motorcycles were back with a vengeance hugging the city streets. Vendors occupied dry sidewalks. Most everyone resumed their daily routines in Dagupan City. Worse, images of the…
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