Our Greatness is found in the small, common Pangasinense

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INAUGURAL MESSAGE
OF
GOV. AMADO T. ESPINO, JR.

LADIES  & GENTLEMEN:
With great honor and humility, I stand on these historic steps of the majestic Pangasinan Provincial Capitol… where many illustrious Pangasinan leaders had come before me… and many more would pass its way in the years to come.
In my youth, I had often gazed at this stately Capitol [...]

Editorial

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Getting down to business

IT looks like the new set of Dagupan's servant leaders are dead-serious about not wasting any time to get the city's affairs in order.
They are not giving much space for some honeymoon period with the city hall employees. They're arriving, sitting down, meeting up, and walking about to sort what needs to [...]

Punchline

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More bad news from Guv Spines

By Ermin Garcia Jr.

Here's my first piece of unsolicited advice to Governor Spines.
Beware of the notorious "Kurbata Boys" of my then favorite mayor Benjie of Dagupan City who I am told are now being recruited by your newly appointed provincial administrator Raffy Baraan to man "critical concerns" in [...]

Here and There

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Why we've stopped singing “O say, can you see…”
By Gerry Garcia

We were graduating seniors of the Dagupan Institute High School on Arellano on December 8 of 1941 when World War II reached our shores through the infamous Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, dawn of the same day and the subsequent bombing of [...]

Think about it

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Spines looks beyond himself

By Jun Velasco

AT the Wednesday victory party of Governor Amado Espino at the Narciso Ramos hall for his 4th district constituents, we saw a new approach in governance in the province.
Spines, the spitfire’s nickname, wants to serve notice that the office is made for them, the hoi poloi. Being short in [...]

Playing with Fire

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Opposition senators self-destructing too soon?
By Gonzalo Duque

WE in the education sector paid a courtesy call on Speaker Joe de Venecia at his beautiful residence at Forbes recently.
All of us from Cocopea and Pacu were impressed by the warm and touching hospitality of the speaker and his lovely wife, Gina, and the warm [...]