Tricycle anarchy

Posted on May 12, 2008 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment

MANY DAGUPENOS, pedestrians especially, are wondering whether there’s still the law regulating the operation of tricycles in Dagupan City…

The color of money

Posted on April 22, 2008 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment

YOU can’t blame local officials and traders tripping over each other on radio to sing hallelujahs to business tycoon Lucio Tan the morning after his visit to Dagupan City to receive an honorary degree for leadership in entrepreneurship from the Lyceum Northwestern University…

Rice as gut issue

Posted on March 23, 2008 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment

SOMETHING that’s closest to the gut of Pinoys now threatens to put everything going on in this country– NBN-ZTE deal, Lozada’s crusade, Lakas-Kampi merger, Villarosa’s acquittal, the smuggling issue brouhaha between congressmen and PASG chief Bebot Villar , typhoons, even Ben’s to die for ‘borjer’ – in the back burner…

A Chinatown in Dagupan?

Posted on March 1, 2008 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment

SO FAR, it’s just a plan, alright…

Mayors' 'general' problems

Posted on February 5, 2008 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment

CIVILIAN local executives had better watch out in the next few years because their political careers are under serious threat…

Corruptors of media

Posted on January 29, 2008 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment

SOMETIME last December, a media colleague forwarded to me a message from Regional Police Director Pol Bataoil apparently meant to answer the issue on media payola from illegal gambling that has somehowlinked the police to the issue…

Is Dagupan sinking?

Posted on December 10, 2007 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment

TUESDAY evening’s near-panic in coastal Bonuan Gueset and even parts of barangay Pantal and the downtown area when water began suddenly carpeting the groundfloor of homes and roads – this less than 12 hours after an Intensity 6 earthquake shook the city at lunchtime –necessarily brings images of the deadly July 16, 1990 killer quake, if not Apocalypse itself…

An airport project that may not fly

Posted on December 4, 2007 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment

WITH no less than the Pangasinan Mayors’ League appearing to favor another town over his beloved Alaminos City in the matter of where the much coveted international airport in Pangasinan would be established, Mayor Hernani Braganza is in a daze…

Allan's time not up yet

Posted on November 24, 2007 - Filed Under , , | Leave a Comment

HEARD the news of fellow mediaman Allan Sison’s latest brush with death at presstime…

When land pollution begets air pollution

Posted on November 17, 2007 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment

SEVEN years after the effectivity of Republic Act 9003 or the “Philippine Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the lead agency for the gargantuan task of seeing to it that all local government units already have sanitary landfills or at the very least, controlled dumps, is just barely starting to move the asses of LGUs…

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