My crystal ball By Ermin Garcia Jr. Going by the picture showing Speaker Joe de V and Dagupan City Mayor Benjie Lim holding hands during the groundbreaking of the Pantal bridge last week, it would indeed, appear that the two are well on the road to reconciliation. No wonder the…
Lying and stealing in Dagupan City By Ermin Garcia Jr. What’s the truth about Dagupan City’s financial condition? On one hand, an obstinate Lim administration continues to deny that the city government is bankrupt, yet and on the other, the Lim allies in the Sanggunian Panglunsod are falling over themselves…
JDV did not deserve the presidential snub By Ermin Garcia Jr. President Arroyo’s State of the Nation address as expected turned out to be just another PR speech, an opportunity for thanksgiving and wishful thinking. I was disappointed that even as she went on with her “dedication program”, she actually…
The Duque brothers score big By Ermin Garcia Jr. The week that passed was certainly an exciting one for the Duque brothers – Cesar and Gonz! Their respective universities (University of Pangasinan for Cesar and Lyceum Northwestern University for Gonz) produced topnotchers in the recent nurses’ licensure exams. Obviously, the…
Who’s afraid of the future? By Ermin Garcia jr. The latest attempt of Malacanang Palace officials to invoke the principle of separation of church and state as a result of the signing of the impeachment complaint by Caloocan’s Bishop Deogracias Yniguez, confirms the confused mindset, hypocrisy and erratic posturing of…
Mayor Benjie’s gambit on jueteng By Ermin Garcia Jr. Many high-handicapped golfers will tell you that they oft swore to give up and drop the game after holing out with mostly double bogeys up until Hole 17. Then just as they were about to switch to cycling or bowling, a…
Making public officials account By Ermin Garcia Jr. We have not heard of how other local government units in the province helped alleviate the situation for parents whose children are enrolled in public schools. But if the report we received from Binmaley is an indicator of how the worsening situation…
Who’s silent about jueteng? By Ermin Garcia Jr. The pressure to keep jueteng alive and profitable in the province is on. The tact being applied now by the local jueteng operators is to silence the local media. But for the jueteng lords to start raiding the media circle only means…
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