By Leonardo Micua   AFTER almost a day-long hunt for news at city hall on Thursday, I’m now inclined to believe that God, in His most mysterious ways, really intervened to give the Dagupan City administration some period of peace, at least until Christmas. And hopefully a little longer, if…

By Leonardo Micua   WHEN I interviewed Mayor Belen Fernandez at her office last week, I asked whether her political allies who are now temporarily holding the majority in the city council can pass Dagupan City’s 2025 annual budget of P1. 6 billion on or before the end of the…

By Leonardo Micua   THE oral testimony of no less than former President Rodrigo Duterte before the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee a few days ago was watched by millions of people all over the country on YouTube with bated breath. They wanted to hear directly from the horse’s mouth how…

By Leonardo Micua   MY good friend Manny Zambrano, who’s based in Chicago and brother of one of our photojournalists, Ray Zambrano, is in town for a brief vacation. He called me up on October 18 to have dinner at a seafood restaurant along JdV Expressway, but I begged off…

By Leonardo Micua   I have it from good sources that Gov. Monmon and his group now appear to be running scared over the declaration of war by former Governor Pogi Espino in his quest to wrest back the provincial capitol. There is reason to be nervous as Pogi declared…

By Leonardo Micua   I have yet to fathom why former Mayor Brian Lim opted to run for vice mayor of Dagupan instead of settling an old score with reelectionist Mayor Belen Fernandez. Instead of a return bout between Mayor Belen and Brian, his mother Celia is taking up the…

By Leonardo Micua   THE QuadCom hearing in Congress probing the alleged extra-judicial killings (EJKs) during the previous administration yielded a positive result, at least as far as the unsolved bizarre killing in 2020 of retired General Wesley Barayuga, a member of PMA Class of 1983, a respected AFP officer…

By Leonardo Micua   IT seems that the people of Dagupan will now have to kiss the planned P150-million Mother and Child Hospital, courtesy of the Department of Health (DOH), goodbye following a resolution adopted by the seven majority in the city council that in the words of City Legal…

By Leonardo Micua   JUST three weeks after the Philippine National Police (PNP) was branded in a congressional hearing as the “biggest crime group in the Philippines”, it was again put in the spotlight following the shocking revelation in the Senate that it was an ex-PNP chief who helped dismissed mayor…

By Leonardo Micua   FOR the nth time, the members of the majority bloc in the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Dagupan again indicated they are in no mood to approve a resolution that could lead to the establishment of the P150 million Maternal and Child Care Hospital (Mother and Child Hospital)….