What's up, Vice Mayor Alvin?
Posted on February 28, 2007 - Filed Under General | Leave a Comment
IT IS always alarming when there‘s relative silence, the absence of a development, any development, in an investigation especially a major one like the sangguniang panlungsod fact-finding on the Tondaligan beachlot scam…
Welcome, P/Supt. Nerez — and watch it now!
Posted on February 25, 2007 - Filed Under General | Leave a Comment
POLICE SENIOR Superintendent Isagani Nerez, a fine officer and gentleman, assumed the PNP provincial director’s office in Pangasinan last week amid swirling controversies concerning the post just vacated by his comrade-in-arms Supt…
Benjie Lim having a grand time
Posted on February 23, 2007 - Filed Under General | Leave a Comment
HAD an informal chat with Mayor Benjie Lim along with a handful of media colleagues at Masarap Grill in Magiclub last Thursday after the Patrima Kapihan and I ended up watching his body language, more than the language…
'Take charge' guys
Posted on February 17, 2007 - Filed Under General | Leave a Comment
EASILY the hottest issue last week (and the previous week) in City Hall and media circles is the brewing word war between Publisher Ermin Garcia, Jr…
Marked - for junking
Posted on February 6, 2007 - Filed Under General | Leave a Comment
SO unfortunate that unless two Dagupan City councilors who are my barangaymates – Alex de Venecia and Vlad Mata – and another one, Joey Tamayo, a distant relative, effectively counter the snowballing move in time, they could find themselves being junked in the May polls by, now hear this, the city’s tricycle operators and drivers sector…
Public accountability
Posted on February 1, 2007 - Filed Under General | Leave a Comment
WITHOUT going into the truth or falsity of the accusation hurled by two new tabloids in Pangasinan– whose editors and staff have chosen to remain journalistic phantoms—against a provincial board member and piggery magnate, last week’s big brouhaha at the sangguniang panlalawigan should highlight, more than anything else, public accountability of both the attacker and the victim…
Mirant defaults, now what?
Posted on February 1, 2007 - Filed Under General | Leave a Comment
LOOKS like it was good while it lasted for the provincial government in the case of the “aborted”(again…