SP Reviews Basista’s Adoption of Solo Parents Welfare Act

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

 BASISTA, Pangasinan – The members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) of Pangasinan are currently reviewing the Ordinance passed by the officials of this town strengthening the “Solo Parents Welfare Act”.

Known as Republic Act No. 8972 as amended by Republic Act No. 11861, Mayor Jolly “JR” Resuello and the members of the Sangguniang Bayan passed Ordinance No. 259 Series of 2026 adopting the national law here.

San Carlos, Dagupan Most Populated LGUs in P’sinan

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

Based on the latest 2024 census of population released on August 21, 2026 by the Philippines Statistics Office (PSO), the chances of the cities of Dagupan and San Carlos, Pangasinan to be a lone congressional district are still dimmed.

Article VI, Section 5 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution mandates that a city that reaches a population of at least 250,000 is entitled to a legislative district and can elect its own representative.

IP Rep. Add’l Member of the Sanggunian

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – Sanggunian (legislative council) all over the country will be seeing their members debating, compromising, and passing laws with a member of the Indigenous Peoples (IP) based on the instruction of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) that an IP representative will be part of the legislature.

“Based on the national policy nagbigay ng kautusan ang national government and the different national agencies with regards to the implementation of the installation of an I.P sector or sectoral representative not just sa sanggunian panlalawigan even the sanggunian bayan when applicable. Kaya ang utos po ngayon ng national government, of course, the sanggunian panlalawigan would follow the guidelines,” said by Pangasinan Vice Governor Mark Ronald Lambino.

How a Poor Asian Country Defeated, Humiliated France

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

While pumping dumbbells and watching at the YouTube the black and white documentary of the Dien Bien Phu Battle between the French and the Viet Minh that erupted on March 13, 1954, two French soldiers digging a trench with their shovels and pickaxes in the North Vietnam mountain overlooking the country of Laos conversed with each other how the battle there could become.

The war was brought in the mountainous areas by General Henri Navarre, the commander-in-chief of French forces in Indochina (now Vietnam) and the strategist of the battle to end the insurrection of Ho Chi Minh and his journalist and teacher turned legendary Army General Võ Nguyên Giáp.

Cong. Eyes Senate Seat?

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

Before my black bag -- with my valuables inside -- was left and lost in a cart at the parking lot and later returned to me at the Lost and Found Counter of S&R-Calasiao in the drizzling dusk last Thursday, I bumped into several political and public figures inside the Sol & Robert Price Membership Shopping.

Former bank manager Elmo Nilo and Cecile (the Man, er, Gay Friday on the cultural festivities of former Pangasinan provincial government First Lady Dr. Jamie Agbayani) have animated conversations with me about the members of the Rainbow Coalition (not President Fidel V. Ramos and Speaker Joe de Venecia vaunted Coalition but of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender)) affairs where countless members are making raves and waves in the global, national, and provincial scenes.

Dagupan, Mangaldan in State of Calamity

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

DAGUPAN CITY – This second class city and the first class town of Mangaldan have declared their State of Calamity (SoC) where fresh funds are funneled to those residents affected by the heavy monsoon rains aggravated by tropical cyclones Luis and Maymay that inundated with floods tens of millions of pesos’ properties and agricultural crops.

Dagupan City and Mangaldan through their lawmaking bodies and their mayors approved into law the SoC in August 10 and 11 this year.

U.S WARNS CHINA NOT TO BUILD BASE IN SCARBOROUGH

By Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

DON'T you know that in March 2016, former U.S. President Barack Obama directly warned Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting in Washington not to reclaim land or build a military outpost at Scarborough Shoal, treating it as a critical red line to prevent a strategic Chinese base close to the Philippines?

The Chinese have huge military outposts in the Spratly Islands and The Paracels all in the South China Sea.