By Leonardo Micua   FROM where I sit, I view the renewed call of the opposition councilors of Dagupan to sit down in a closed door meeting in a neutral place with Mayor Belen Fernandez to discuss the Supplemental Budget 2 smacks with a lot of suspicion. It presupposes that…

By Leonardo Micua WHAT should happen already happened. It was actually long overdue and obviously happened only after much contemplation at past 2 pm on Wednesday. The resignation of Vice President Sara Duterte as education secretary and vice chairperson of ELCAC finally happened. Most everyone felt this was long overdue since her…

By Leonardo Micua   IT is now less than one year before the 2025 election. It is about time, Mayor Belen Fernandez and the 180,000 Dagupenos stop hoping that eventually, the seven majority councilors will eventually change their mind and endorse the construction of the P150-million Mother and Child Hospital….

By Leonardo Micua   THE report that 20 of our provincial officials were invited to the United States to attend the celebration of Philippine Independence Day with Filipino Americans and invite investors to the province looked like they have run out of valid arguments to justify their official trip, which…

By Leonardo  Micua   KUDOS to Dagupan City for being the seventh of only nine cities in the Philippines and among the 1,000 best cities in the world in the Oxford Economies Global Cities Index. Ditto to Mayor Belen Fernandez and the people of Dagupan City (except the seven daw)…

By Leonardo Micua   WHILE it has been raining sporadically in some parts of the country, it is still hot and humid in Dagupan City and Pangasinan after every little rainfall. It means summer is still here and its hot air has not completely exited. Could this be the reason…

By Leonardo Micua   VIRAL on YouTube for over a week now is the Senate inquiry over the POGO hub in Bamban, Tarlac that was raided by lawmen led by the Philippine Anti-Organized Crime Commission and literally opened cans of worms and hidden skeletons in closets of some incumbent and past…

By Leonardo Micua   CITY Legal Officer Aurora Valle now agrees fully well that the seven majority councilors of Dagupan have already abused their power! They had no justifiable reason for not approving all the supplemental budgets requested by Mayor Belen Fernandez since 2022, not to mention the inexplicable delays…

By Leonardo Micua   DESPITE the 49 degrees heat index on April 30, the Bangusan Street Party on Jose de Venecia Expressway Extension was another big hit. An estimated more than 500,000 people from all walks of life jostled their way to the venue to take part in this once…

By Leonardo Micua   IN this intense hot weather, we look up to the trees to shelter us from the piercing rays of the sun. Although the whiff of wind is still hot and humid, a person could feel a soothing relief albeit temporarily if he is under the shade of…