Think about it
Premature politicking
By Jun Velasco
“It’s better to look where you’re going than to see where you’ve been,” E.C. McKenzie
AN over-protective security aide of Mayor Belen Fernandez roughly pushed aside Manila Bulletin’s Liezle Basa-Inigo while covering the mayor recently.
The mayor may not know anything about it. The irony is the newshen has been consistently helping Belen and the city in the Manila Bulletin promote reforms, “Daang Matuwid” and get back on its feet with or without any appreciation for her.
Such eyesore is characteristic of over-zealous factotums who hurt rather than help their bosses due to canine loyalty.
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Over in Lingayen, will somebody remind Consuelo’s Fast Food restaurant?
The cashier does not honor a driver’s license—in lieu of a senior citizen’s card for a customer’s entitlement of the legally prescribed 20 percent discount.
Ignorance of the law could send a person to jail!
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Le Duc Hotel is the latest milestone in Dagupan’s eco-tourism program.
Gonzalo Duque, the man behind Le Duc, says Café Du Marc of Marlene Gutierrez, and his hotel are joining forces to corner culinary arts clientele in the north.
Le Duc and Du Marc are French.
Maybe, the duo should put up a Paris Café.
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For good or ill, the local political landscape is suddenly spewing out a riot of pop corns, after Mark Cojuangco stole the daylights of Gov. Spines for announcing his plan to run for governor.
Spines should have shrugged it off as any man’s right or prerogative in a free country. But he couldn’t conceal his hurt…. because the announcement worked like a deafening thunder that drowned his State of the Province Address. The hurt, if you ask us, goes deeper, and we won’t go into details just as yet.
What’s hard to bite is paganigani governor Pol Bataoil’s seeming diminution in the gubernatorial equation when he was earlier bannered as the man to beat in the Capitol game.
Spines is correct. It’s too early to talk politics. But readers salivate it. Even the national scene is now drooling on a post Aquino presidential scenario featuring Jojo Binay, Mar Roxas, Peter Cayetano, Ping Lacson, MVP, Grace Poe, etc.
Spines is correct again. If we are stuck in the political muck, we might not rise again.
But suppose it’s Pogi Espino and not Mark that the party, Nationalist People’s Coalition, is endorsing for governor? Maybe, Spines will change his favorite tune from “Today” to “It’s Not For Me to Say.”
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We at PACE (Pangasinan Ass’n of Columnists and Editors) are planning to come out with an anthology of the province’s representative of its writing output, from the best works of local writers including the late Ermin Garcia Sr., Bayardo Estrada, Carlos Bulosan, Frank Sionil Jose, Alfredo Gabot, Gerry Garcia, Fidel V. Ramos, Jose de Venecia Jr., Mita Duque, Ermin Jr., Rod Rivera, Dante Velasco, etc.
The idea is to impress upon the present crop that the province has gone a long way in the realm.
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A world climate change report has identified parts of Dagupan and Central Pangasinan within the path of a deathly storm surge or tsunami by virtue of our geographical location in the Pacific.
The study says what happened to Leyte, Samar and the Central Visayas could happen to our place. We’d like to ask leaders of the province, the city, DENR and climate change scholars to zero in on this report for our protection, pronto!
Last time we heard about this was former Speaker Joe de Venecia’s protective dike project in Barangay Bonuan Binloc as a contemplated buffer or blockade against this feared environmental onslaught.
It’s time to take a serious look and come up with an ACTION PLAN before it’s too late. We can’t ignore or take the report lightly amidst a Mother Earth tottering from its foundations.
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