Playing with Fire
Posted on January 14, 2007 - Filed Under Opinion, Playing with Fire | Leave a Comment
More on the DCNHS dream
By Gonzalo Duque
MS. LINDA Magno is in town.
One of the most sought-after lady singers in the 60’s up to the 80’s, Atchi Linda, now Mrs. [...]
General Admission
Posted on January 14, 2007 - Filed Under General Admission, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Agbayani for senator?
“Spine” vs the doktora?
By Al S. Mendoza
I WAS TOLD that Governor Agbayani is set to run for [...]
Business Log
Posted on January 14, 2007 - Filed Under Business Log, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Ready for the Talong Festival
By Eva C. Visperas
This agricultural town, Villasis, known as the “Vegetable Bowl of Pangasinan”, is ready to stage its second Talong Festival on January 19 in time for the town’s 200th [...]
Harvest Time
Posted on January 14, 2007 - Filed Under Harvest Time, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Junked rice breeding material turns out to be an asset
By Sosimo Ma. Pablico
Junks may not be totally useless if something is done to make them beneficial to man.
One good example is the improved IR58025B where the IRBB lines of IRRI [International Rice Research Institute] were used as bacterial blight resistance gene donor. [...]
Viewpoints
Posted on January 14, 2007 - Filed Under Opinion, Viewpoints | Leave a Comment
Reformist, Nationalist, Populist
By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D.
There are marked indications that the 2004 midterm elections are key to the future of this country. Since the texture of the present administration there is an on-going long litany of big socio-moral reversals and scandals with their [...]
Feelings
Posted on January 14, 2007 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Deja vu
I. Known you before!
By Emmanuelle
Before this birth, a death. And beyond that death,
a previous birth. So the cycle went. And goes.
As we lived in series, our paths touched, crossed.
Change never ceases. But the soul mirrored
in your eyes,
it is one the same.
Been here before!
Life is timeless, and the timeless in me lives
“in [...]
Cruz sounds alarm over election-related violence
Posted on January 14, 2007 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Leave a Comment
Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz has sounded the alarm over reports of warlord politicians organizing the private armies for the May 2007 local and national elections.
“I have already heard that a good number of traditional politicians have already revived their private armies”, Cruz told The PUNCH.
The influential church leader, who views the next elections as a [...]
1st SP meeting for 2007 put off due to absences
Posted on January 14, 2007 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Leave a Comment
So what else is new?
In its first regular session for the year 2007, the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) again adjourned without discussing an item in its agenda after failing muster a quorum.
Vice Mayor and SP presiding officer Alvin Fernandez came early as usual, and those who answered the roll call made by [...]
Bonuan beach land claimants unmasked
Posted on January 14, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
‘BILLION PESO’ RACKET UNDER PROBE
Prominent families included in the list
If the list compiled by the former parks administrator of Tondaligan Park is to be believed, the city’s shoreline is already owned not by the city but some of the city’s prominent families.
At least 170 persons and entities were identified to have been issued by [...]
More violations of terms cited
Posted on January 14, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
MAGSAYSAY PARK BID
TWO weeks after the resolution was passed by the city council authorizing the project, Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez has exposed more loopholes in the controversial bidding for the development of a tourism building at the former Magsaysay Park to indicate a failed bidding.
But this will still not stop Mayor Benjamin Lim from [...]
