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…

By Leonardo Micua   THE video coverage of Mayor Julio “Rammy” Parayno III’s press conference last week shared to me, revealed that in  his only five years in office, Urdaneta has overtaken Dagupan in points of economy and income. Translation: Dagupan is no longer the sunshine city of the north…

By Leonardo Micua   IF the seven majority councilors will still refuse to pass the resolution authorizing Mayor Belen Fernandez to sign a memorandum of agreement with the Department of Health for the implementation of the Mother and Child Hospital despite their executive meeting with DOH Regional Director Paula Paz Sydiongco,…

By Leonardo Micua   OUR sincerest prayers go to the people of Taiwan and the 170,000 Filipinos working and living in that country, hoping that with God’s miracle they can easily recover from the deep wound wrought by the 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck in the morning of April 3….

By Leonardo Micua   AS the Catholic world observes the Lenten Season, capped by the Holy Week marking the martyrdom of Jesus of Nazareth, the whole world is teetering on the brink of a catastrophic war that could likely end mankind. Methinks that if World War III happens, the Philippines is likely…

By Leonardo Micua   WHAT got my goat about the the seven majority councilors of Dagupan’s Sangguniang Panlungsod was Councilor Alvin Coquia’s alibi for their absence last March 12 session – that all of them were forced to skip the session because one of them had an asthma attack and had…

By Leonardo Micua   I HAVE a gut feeling that the seven majority councilors who boycotted the regular session of the Dagupan Sanggunian again last week are giving the message that they have no intention of passing the 2024 annual budget after three of their group were indicted by the…