By Farah G. Decano THE level of toxicity that any individual can tolerate, whether physical or psychological, is limited. Beyond a certain threshold, the poison will either cause death or insanity. The same is probably true for the Dagupan populace which is presently bombarded with, and drowned in, constant…
By Eva C. Visperas THIS is it. It’s gonna happen, really. Something exciting is unfolding in Pangasinan. I thought last Monday, July 10, was going to be just an ordinary regular session of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) that a group of 10 mediamen usually cover. We didn’t realize it…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. SOME of my cycling contemporaries, including the young and current competitors of the two-wheeled event, politicians and cycling buffs, asked me (maybe to test or tease me) what our province’s credentials are in the field of cycling as competitive sport. They wondered what it…
By Rex Catubig HE was the antithesis of a city official during his term as Mayor. He was down to earth, loud and foul-mouthed– way before a later Mayor in the south claimed the patent for crassness and rudeness. But the redneck and hillbilly pretensions were all shock tactics…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. AT the rate the both camps of Mayor Belen Fernandez, on one hand, and the Sanggunian’s 7 epaLiFe majority members (Councilors Red Erfe-Mejia, Alfie Fernandez, Celia Lim, Irene Lim-Acosta, Dada Reyna-Macalanda, Alvin Coquia and Marilou Fernandez,) on the other hand, are threatening, badgering and bullying…
By Leonardo Micua DURING a media forum on Wednesday on Kabaleyan Channel, Mayor Belen Fernandez accepted the challenge of Councilor Alfie Fernandez to the minority to file a case against the majority if they found their action in shelving anew the P1.3 billion annual budget not in conformity with…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo A few years ago, I watched The Net, a film about Angela Bennett (Sandra Bullock) whose identity gets erased by a cabal of shadowy people. She fights, with all her might, to prove that she exists through exhausting, energy-zapping twists and turns. At that time,…
By Farah G, Decano IF what a Duterte vlogger is saying is true – that the present First Lady wields the power of presidential appointment – there should still be reason for her to smile whether or not she gave her imprimatur to Larry Gadon’s appointment as presidential adviser…
By Eva C. Visperas I thought I went to a wrong venue, somewhere in a Dreamland. But it was real. It was the Balon Bayambang Events Center adorned with white flowers as venue for Mayor Niña Jose-Quiambao’s State of the Municipality Address 2023 held on July 5. Mayor Niña…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. ANOTHER first time happened recently in the field of sports when two young unheralded Calasiao sisters from barangay Nagsaing won in the 2023 National Open Cycling Championships held on June 27-30 in Tagaytay City. The elder Wenizah Vinoya, 17, took the gold medal in…
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