Random Thoughts
Trying a new and different kind of leader
By Leonardo Micua MY good friend Manny Zambrano, who’s based in Chicago and brother of one of our photojournalists, Ray Zambrano, is in town for a brief vacation. He called me up on October 18 to have dinner at a seafood restaurant along JdV Expressway, but I begged off…
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Son vs. stranger in Urdaneta
By Leonardo Micua I have it from good sources that Gov. Monmon and his group now appear to be running scared over the declaration of war by former Governor Pogi Espino in his quest to wrest back the provincial capitol. There is reason to be nervous as Pogi declared…
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Is Brian afraid of Belen?
By Leonardo Micua I have yet to fathom why former Mayor Brian Lim opted to run for vice mayor of Dagupan instead of settling an old score with reelectionist Mayor Belen Fernandez. Instead of a return bout between Mayor Belen and Brian, his mother Celia is taking up the…
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Reopening the Barayuga cold case
By Leonardo Micua THE QuadCom hearing in Congress probing the alleged extra-judicial killings (EJKs) during the previous administration yielded a positive result, at least as far as the unsolved bizarre killing in 2020 of retired General Wesley Barayuga, a member of PMA Class of 1983, a respected AFP officer…
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Goodbye, MCH
By Leonardo Micua IT seems that the people of Dagupan will now have to kiss the planned P150-million Mother and Child Hospital, courtesy of the Department of Health (DOH), goodbye following a resolution adopted by the seven majority in the city council that in the words of City Legal…
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