OVERCHARGING AND MOONLIGHTING DOCTORS – Second District Board Member Raul Sison has an expose involving some doctors and a popular hospital in Dagupan City. He phoned me in to relay his concern about a licensed sentensyador (judge in a cockfight) whose right wrist was injured by a tari and needed…

LINGAYEN AT WAR?  The red flag is up in the capital town of Lingayen. (No, it’s not the woman’s cycle some men talk about). It’s literally “red flag is up.”  The Philippine flag was raised on the flagpole inverted –  red on top, blue below. That faux pas was perfectly…

CITY UNDER ORTIZ’S WATCH –Dagupan will no doubt eventually become drug-free in a matter of days as Barangay Pugaro already has become the 30th barangay declared drug-free in Dagupan. P/Supt. Franklin Ortiz, Dagupan chief of police, said Pugaro was cleared on the level of the City Anti-Drug Abuse Council (CADAC), that leaves only…

DOING THINGS THE LEGIT WAY. Filibustering according to the Webster’s dictionary, is an act in legislation of obstructing a measure through the delivery of long speeches. Many believe this is what Dagupan Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia has been doing in the city council albeit unfounded, to block the passage of measures even in…

ONE INSECURE MAYOR. One elected mayor appears so insecure, he wants all the members of the family of his previous opponent eliminated in their town’s political circle. He tasted success when he trounced in the 2016 polls his opponent who has made a good name in public service. Remember, it’s…

HOPEFULLY, A CLOSURE TO RESUELLO MURDER.  The many gun-for-hire groups uncovered and dismantled lately by the Pangasinan police clearly proves that crime does not pay and the long arm of the law will ultimately catch up with the perpetrators of dastardly crimes sooner or later. It also proves that, in a not too…

BACK TO HAPPY DAYS FOR DRUGGIES – The decision of President Duterte to remove the Philippine National Police (PNP) from his war on drugs may be ill-timed as it made when the campaign against this menace is already succeeding. Not that we do not trust the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency’s…

PH GUN POLICY BETTER — The bloodbath that happened in Las Vegas, Nevada where a lone gun man opened fire at a crowd of people attending a pop concert, killing 58 of them and wounding 500 others, sent shock waves all over the world. The incident was one of America’s saddest moments…

RETRAIN POSO ENFORCERS — We pity the POSO man caught on video escorting a motorcycle rider he arrested sans crash helmet on board the latter’s motorcycle, also without a helmet on and soon got arrested by his peers. But this is just a classic example that the law excuses no one, even if…

ANYARE SA MALINAC LAY LABI? — When you talk of Pangasinan music, which is the heart of our province, the one that automatically comes to mind is Malinac Lay Labi, right? But it’s saddening and heartbreaking to hear Pangasinan’s top folksong, Malinac Lay Labi, become a song for accompanying cortége…