Editorial
Posted on April 22, 2008 - Filed Under Editorial, Editorial Cartoon, News | Leave a Comment
One Pangasinan
HUWAG maging dayuhan sa sariling bayan.
This is an old local adage that in a nutshell captures what Governor Amado Espino Jr. is sending out to Pangasinenses when he made the call for locals to travel and discover their own province.
Given that times are hard at the moment, what with prices of basic goods [...]
Editorial
Posted on April 15, 2008 - Filed Under Editorial, Editorial Cartoon, News | Leave a Comment
Real crisis, no real solutions
Looking at the numbers being pronounced by various officials on the farm output plus volume of supply that are available on stock and being shipped in from Vietnam through Poro Point in neighboring La Union, we can rest easy that there won't be any rice sup-ply problem here in Pangasinan, and [...]
Editorial
Posted on April 8, 2008 - Filed Under Editorial, Editorial Cartoon, News | Leave a Comment
Truth and Courage
PANGASINENSES had a glimpse of the thoughts and the character of Senate’s latest star whistle-blower Atty. Jun Lozada, courtesy of Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz.
People across the province came to listen to the man who quoted CHED chair Romulo Neri as having directed him to “moderate their greed” and who described President [...]
Editorial
Posted on April 1, 2008 - Filed Under Editorial, Editorial Cartoon, News | Leave a Comment
Crack down on crime
THE recent kidnapping of Roland Z. Villegas, chairman of barangay Anonang in San Fabian, a former Liga ng mga Barangay president and defeated mayoralty candidate, adds to the now increasing list of unresolved crimes involving prominent personalities in the province.
Two daughters of a Chinese businessman from San Jacinto were kidnapped four months [...]
Editorial
Posted on March 25, 2008 - Filed Under Editorial, Editorial Cartoon, News | Leave a Comment
Story of hope
Death is the one sure thing.
And it is precisely this certainty that Jesus Christ triumphed over in His resurrection based on the Catholic faith.
Which is why Easter Sunday, the day Christ conquered death, is actually the core of Catholicism more than Christmas, the celebration of the birth of the Savior. While Christmas [...]
Editorial
Posted on March 18, 2008 - Filed Under Editorial, Editorial Cartoon, News | Leave a Comment
Pooled Editorial
Perpetuating jueteng
IN late August last year, no less than Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr., then still House Speaker, for the first time ever in his long political career asked the provincial force of the Philippine National Police to put a stop to jueteng, that illegal numbers game that has plagued Philippine society even longer [...]
Editorial
Posted on March 10, 2008 - Filed Under Editorial, Editorial Cartoon, News | Leave a Comment
Rich and Famous
Pangasinan's western coast is one of the province's most beautiful and economically valuable natural resources. The shoreline stretches for more than 100 kilometers from the Dasol Bay to the Lingayen Gulf and links a dozen municipalities including Infanta, Dasol, Burgos, Agno, Bani, Bolinao, Anda, Sual, Labrador, Mangaldan, San Fabian and Lingayen, the capital [...]
Editorial
Posted on March 4, 2008 - Filed Under Editorial, Editorial Cartoon, News | Leave a Comment
Rallying for good
Just as we are preparing to get this week's print edition off the press, an extensive multi-sectoral rally is being prepared in Makati, thecentral business district in the capital. A parallel rally is underway here in Dagupan, the business center of the province, whose local government officials showed loyal support to President Gloria [...]
Editorial
Posted on February 26, 2008 - Filed Under Editorial, Editorial Cartoon, News | Leave a Comment
Truth be told
While initiatives and actions - ranging from simple calls to prayer rallies to heated street cries coming from practically all sectors in society including from the ranks of the government û brewed in the capital last week in protest against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo over the now extremely convoluted ZTE broadband deal, Pangasinan [...]
Editorial
Posted on February 18, 2008 - Filed Under Editorial, Editorial Cartoon, News | Leave a Comment
The local scene
While trouble brewed in the capital Metro Manila last week, all seemed pretty well around these parts.
The halls of the Senate echoed with questions and answers in a probe for such an elusive but obvious truth of how deep and brazen corruption is in government. The corridors of the House of Representatives also [...]
