It has been a month since we said goodbye to Pluto as the ninth planet in our Solar System. For 76 years, Pluto was the youngest (bunso) in the Sun Family – the farthest and the coldest planet.
            But it was not actually a goodbye that happened when the International Astronomical Union decided to demote Pluto from a major to a dwarf planet. The erstwhile planet never actually left for another solar system, or another galaxy. It’s just there, still orbiting around our beloved god sun Ra, albeit encroaching into the orbit of Neptune .

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 Time was when Dagupan was called the Queen City of the North — the economic, government and educational center in Region I.

                Not anymore, City Mayor Benjamin Lim admitted. The city has been dislodged from its position and at present, there are other equally progressive growth centers in the region and even in the Pangasinan province.

                The city government has also gotten the flak after it landed among one of the local government units with the lowest net income in 2005, as reported by the Commission on Audit. Read more