By Leonardo Micua   FRIDAY morning, I was still groggy and my eyes dreamy from lack of sleep after translating and editing the night before to beat our news deadline. With nothing in mind, I decided instead to write about Villasis, my hometown, where I traced my roots and visit…

By Leonardo Micua   FOLLOWING the brazen gun attack that killed Oriental Governor Roel Degamo and nine other persons inside his compound by determined hired killers, President BBM ordered the DILG and PNP to monitor election hot spots all over the country. It is because, apparently, it may have occurred…

By Leonardo Micua   I WAS no longer surprised at all when the DPWH commenced its stalled cutting of overgrown trees, especially mango trees, from Barangay Tebag in Sta. Barbara to Calasiao and up to the boundary of Dagupan and Calasiao. DPWH was rushing to finish its old road widening…

By Leonardo Micua   ON February 14, members of the majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panglungsod, except one, wore red in tune with the spirit of Valentine’s Day. That would have been just fine as many others wore red that day. Many thought with red as the dominant color of…

By Leonardo Micua   THERE is this news report that an opinion survey is being conducted at the instance of the local government in Labrador, a town northwest of Lingayen, seeking the opinion of the townspeople on whether or not they approve the construction of not just one but six…

By Leonardo Micua   BASED on copies of some official records sent to me being a journalist, it is clear as a morning day to say that some corrupt people in government who exploited the COVID-19 pandemic were laughing all the way to the bank. One example were the 1,242…

By Leonardo Micua   AS clear as day, Dagupan’s annual city budget and its integral plans as well as the Annual Investment Plan, all for Calendar Year 2023, will not be passed before the March 31, 2023  deadline. The seven-man majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod appears to be in no…

By Leonardo Micua   FROM where I sit, I view the incident in Bayambang where a woman onion farmer, who testified in the senate hearing and cried harassment when the police visited her not once but eight times, as an eye-opener . From what I gathered, the issue started when…

By Leonardo Micua INQUIRER.net reported on Friday (before our deadline) that the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chaired by Senator Francis Tolentino has recommended the filing of criminal charges against at least eight former and current officials of the Department of Education and of the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget…

By Leonardo Micua    NOT until DILG Provincial Director Virgilio Sison paid an unscheduled visit at the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod on January 10 did we know that it’s only Dagupan, among all local government units in Region 1, that does not yet have an approved annual budget for 2023 till…