By Leonardo Micua “ISANG text message lang, hindi dalawa, nandiyan na siya.” This was how Mayor Belen Fernandez described how Senator Imee Marcos quickly responded to the city’s call for help. According to Mayor Belen, with just one text message, Manang Imee came to Dagupan in one of its…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo HE was, an occasional intruder in her thoughts. Whatever happened to him? She found him, in the dragnet of the web, as always, the community of the found, where the real challenge is anonymity. He looked older than she anticipated, different from what she imagined,…
By Farah G. Decano THE tension in the West Philippine Sea is escalating once again. Lately, China has repeatedly fired water cannons at a Philippine vessel that tried to replenish the resources of the BRP docked at the Ayungin Shoal. The present reaction of the international community is very…
By Eva C. Visperas WHILE on sickbed for one week at the height of super typhoon ‘Egay’, I got the chance to browse news online websites and one caught my attention: the Green Canopy project of the provincial government of Pangasinan. It broke my heart the past recent years…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. BACK to sports. The subject of this piece is all about boxing. Firstly, anent the failure of our Fil-Am fighter, the former four-division world champion Nonito “Filipino Flash” Donaire to recapture the World Boxing Council (WBC) bantamweight diadem held last July 30 at T-Mobile…
By Rex Catubig I feel trapped in a time warp. While I’m fully aware of my advanced age that osteoarthritis has proclaimed and confirmed unabashedly, I realize that I have not really fully grasped the inevitability of age, the accretion in years, and the imminence of death. My theater…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. IN the mid-50s till mid-60s, the world found the bright illuminating moon as the epitome and symbol of one’s endless love for the other. Going out on a date with the full moon shining overhead was a plus for a couple… they who promise the…
By Leonardo Micua AS Dagupan is the catch basin of water from the upland draining through the Sinocalan River in adjacent Sta. Barbara town before it meanders and empties into the Lingayen Gulf, it is no longer a stranger to flood. But evidently, inundation had become more apparent and more…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo FALCON had been merciful, it danced past the Philippines and may tango into a super typhoon somewhere else. Together with the Habagat (southwest monsoon), it continued to dump rain, and exacerbated the impact of Egay, the fifth of the predicted 29 named storms to hit…
By Farah G. Decano I celebrated my first anniversary as Dean of the Lyceum Northwestern University College of Law recently. My gratitude to President Luz Duque-Hammersheimb, Atty. Gonzalo Duque, and Dr. Francisco Duque III for giving me a free hand in steering the college to new heights. The leadership…
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