Think about it
Posted on January 29, 2008 - Filed Under Opinion, Think about It | Leave a Comment
Hillary Clinton takes random poll here
By Jun Velasco
THERE was a time when movie actor James Dean - he with the signature sideburns, standing collar, cigarette in mouth -was the rage of the young here, there and everywhere. .
That "idol" image created a cult, believed responsible for the cigarette smoking craze and up to now [...]
Playing with Fire
Posted on January 29, 2008 - Filed Under Opinion, Playing with Fire | Leave a Comment
Progressive Policy
By Gonzalo Duque
LET'S salute President GMA for her progressive policy on education and other programs of government that all of us hope would lead to the country’s unimpeded socio-economic national development.
She has ok'd and is expected to preside over the summit meeting of the country's top educators on January 31 to Feb.1 at [...]
General Admission
Posted on January 29, 2008 - Filed Under General Admission, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Three airports
By Al S. Mendoza
SUDDENLY, everybody seems to want an airport.
Mayor Rey Velasco wants one in Sta. Barbara and Mayor Nani Braganza wants his in Alaminos City.
Nani cites GMA as his No. 1 backer for his airport. GMA had publicly singled out Alaminos as the site of Pangasinan’s future airport.
Rey says Sta. Barbara should [...]
Harvest Time
Posted on January 29, 2008 - Filed Under Harvest Time, Opinion | Leave a Comment
PhilRice was well worth the investment
By Sosimo Ma. Pablico
AS A PUBLIC R&D [research and development] investment, PhilRice [Philippine Rice Research Institute] was well worth it, according to a team of experts who made an external review of the Institute's impact.
Consisting of retired IRRI deputy director general Dr. Fernando A. Bernardo, former UP Mindanao chancellor [...]
Viewpoints
Posted on January 29, 2008 - Filed Under Opinion, Viewpoints | Leave a Comment
"Destabilization”
By +Oscar V. Cruz
It is not a secret that according to the spirit of the times and in line with the changing mood of the people in the country, there are words and terms that become the season's flavor of the mouth. This is exactly the case of the supposedly fearful and disturbing phenomenon [...]
Young Roots
Posted on January 29, 2008 - Filed Under Opinion, Roots | Leave a Comment
Drawn and hooked
By Kristine Oineza
I was born and raised in La Union but I, as I believe majority of us Ilocanos are, have strong Pangasinan links.
My father is from Bani. I have an aunt from San Fabian and another from Natividad.
We never really went on family visits to their hometowns during my growing [...]
Sports Eye
Posted on January 29, 2008 - Filed Under Opinion, Sports Eye | Leave a Comment
Axe cycling coach
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.
TWO weeks ago, one of our national cyclists came to me and handed me a duplicate copy of a petition letter signed by 12 out of the 17 nationals wanting to expel their head coach, Jommel Lorenzo, for many reasons. The letter was addressed to Mr. Alberto [...]
Feelings
Posted on January 29, 2008 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Babytalk (Part 2)
By Emmanuelle
First thing first. FEELINGS would like to express its appreciation for the calls, emails, and SMS from the regular readers of the hard copy and the webpage - Pangasinenses migrating to the nation’s thousands of islands, overseas Filipino workers in the Middle East and other places as strange, Filipino immigrants with [...]
Too many disruptive public holidays!
Posted on January 28, 2008 - Filed Under Punch Forum | Leave a Comment
Kingsley Lewis
28 Jan 2008
Several weeks ago Sunday Punch had a piece complaining about the number of public holidays in the Philippines.
Please follow this up with criticisms of:
The announcement of new public holidays by politicians with little or no justification presumably because they think this wins [...]
Sharing a common thread
Posted on January 28, 2008 - Filed Under Punch Forum | Leave a Comment
Ms. Ric
28 Jan 2008
How right you are Mr. Ceralde, every community has a neighborhood others wouldn’t dream of crossing or being caught in the dark at.
In Edwin’s side of the state, all he has to do is cross Dumbarton Bridge and be in one of the most notorious of neighborhoods as far as gang [...]
