BOARDWALK OF COASTAL ROAD?  Or cop versus cop. Or should I say police general versus police colonel? But let’s include in the battleground the Department of Public Works and Highway. It’s about the the boardwalk project of retired police general and 2nd District Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil that should be referred…

WRONG ARGUMENT, COUNCILOR! We can’t understand why one or two of the oppositors to the transfer of Dagupan City Hall to another site kept on talking about a supposed Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) based on alleged study by UP Planades, which they claimed to have been approved in 2003…

BULLYING CAUGHT ON CAMERA –The issue on the transfer of Dagupan City hall to its new proposed site along the growth area in Pantal-Lucao diversion road is bringing out the worst in one city councilor. I will not dwell on the pros and cons of the transfer. I will zero…

HANDS-ON MOLDING OF FUTURE JOURNALISTS — This project, being planned through the collaborative efforts of the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (Pangasinan chapter) and Fourth District Rep. Christopher de Venecia, should push through. It will greatly benefit aspiring journalists in Dagupan City and other areas in the fourth congressional…

BIG IDEAS. BIG PROJECTS –  Things are now all falling into place in Pangasinan and Dagupan City. Imagine, a Chinese company is exploring the possibility of building a commercial railway that will connect all cities in Pangasinan, and Dagupan City was recently named an economic zone in the country. All these…

PANGASINAN, A CRADLE OF HEROES – On the occasion of Philippine Independence Day on Monday, we dug up an old article we posted on the Internet a long time ago and which can still be accessed till today. We wrote that the province of Pangasinan attained its full independence from Spain…

MR. FOREVER NO TALK  — A recent visit to Japan two weeks past once again proved what is a known fact about one provincial official. In one of the discussions I attended as a sit-in guest of one of the invited delegates for a JICA-initiated official trip for very few…

DUTERTE MARTIAL LAW VS MARCOS MARTIAL LAW – Who’s afraid of martial law? Not me, who was among the first newsmen in the province arrested by the then Philippine Constabulary (PC) when Proclamation 1081 signed by then President Marcos was implemented in Pangasinan. In fact, I spent few hours in the…

NO DUE PROCESS –  Was due process really observed when Carlito Ocampo, chief of the Dagupan POSO, was unceremoniously sacked as deputized agent of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) by no less than  LTO Regional Director Teofilo Guadiz III? To me, it  looks like  Ocampo was not given his day in…

ANOTHER FIRST FROM MAYOR BELEN – The newly inaugurated three-storey evacuation/rescue center in Barangay Salapingao, an initiative of Mayor Belen Fernandez, is no doubt another first in the history of the city, coming at a time when Dagupan is about to celebrate its 70th platinum year as a city. At…