General Admission
Posted on July 30, 2007 - Filed Under General Admission, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Listen Guv Spines
By Al S. Mendoza
"Listen, do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell…” The Beatles
GUV Spines, as our Publisher-Editor loves to call Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr., has promised to be a "listening governor" of Pangasinan.
I like that.
You listen to those you govern, you will never go wrong.
You [...]
APPEAL TO NEW GUV
Posted on July 30, 2007 - Filed Under Inside News, News, Photo Gallery | Leave a Comment
APPEAL TO NEW GUV—Rep. Victor Agbayani (2nd district, Pangasinan) appeals to Governor Amado Espino Jr. to build on what he has done in Pangasinan as governor for nine years instead of focusing on fault-finding which he deemed "imagined" than factual of the past provincial administration in a talk to newsmen after the State of the [...]
Feelings
Posted on July 30, 2007 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Vanned!
By Emmanuelle
This is a true story. Maybe it's yours.
She was the last passenger in. Actually, she was not supposed to be allowed in. The van was too full with Monday riders and their baggage. If it were not for her soulful eyes which she used shamelessly on occasions like this. And of course, if it [...]
Business Log
Posted on July 30, 2007 - Filed Under Business Log, Opinion | Leave a Comment
The first “fetus within fetus” case
By Eva C. Visperas
It was the first case of a fetus within a fetus in the country and it happened to someone from Pangasinan.
That report was enough to make this corner follow up on the story, and locate the “twins” and their parents.
It was in the very remote [...]
Harvest Time
Posted on July 30, 2007 - Filed Under Harvest Time, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Cool rice for a warmer world
By Sosimo Ma. Pablico
Rice breeders throughout the world are now being challenged by climate change to develop cool rice varieties for a warmer world, as the current varieties may no longer be productive under rising temperature condition in the near future.
In a recent international workshop in [...]
Viewpoints
Posted on July 30, 2007 - Filed Under Opinion, Viewpoints | Leave a Comment
Wrong and unpopular
By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D.
To be right and unpopular is not wrong. But to be wrong and unpopular is right. Herein lies the wrong conclusion of the national leadership attempting to believe that its unpopularity is because of doing what is [...]
Sports Eye
Posted on July 30, 2007 - Filed Under Opinion, Sports Eye | Leave a Comment
Charity begins at home
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.
THE much-awaited 2007 PRISAA Pangasinan-Dagupan Basketball Invitational Championship, dubbed this year as "Mayor Al's Cup", was formally opened last Thursday morning with much fanfare.
The sports-minded Alipio Fernandez, Jr., Dagupan's mayor, delivered a morale-boosting speech as the keynote speaker, while Atty. Gonzalo Duque, president of PRISAA Region [...]
Roots
Posted on July 30, 2007 - Filed Under Opinion, Roots | Leave a Comment
Up in the air (lalamet)
By Marifi Jara
Ganda points for GMA and her spin doctors for their attempt to hide the bigger and more important issues about the mothballed NAIA Terminal 3.
And have to give them credit for using a good emotional tactic - the "people's safety" as the government's primary concern for not opening [...]
GMA oks Alaminos international airport
Posted on July 30, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
ANOTHER MEGA PROJECT
P700 million worth,to be built in 3 years
ALAMINOS City is it.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, in her State of the Nation Address Monday, announced that an airport will be constructed in this city, home to the Hundred Islands National Park.
Alaminos Mayor Hernani Braganza, overjoyed by the pronouncement, said in a press conference [...]
JdV's fifth speaker term is "sweetest" - Gina
Posted on July 30, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
Georgina de Venecia, wife of Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., said her husband's victory for a fifth term at the top post of the House of Representatives is the "sweetest" because "we won the fight the hard way”.
Mrs. de Venecia said they had to go through a tough campaign for the speakership bid of her [...]
