Editorial Cartoon
New Year wish list WE bid goodbye to another year, thankful for everything good that was and learning from whatever unpleasantness there were. In welcoming the New Year, we make wishes for more goodness all around — in politics, the economy, social services, environmental protection, a better and sustainable quality…
Editorial
Preparing history today for tomorrow By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE provincial board made history the other week by creating the Pangasinan Historical and Cultural Commission. And it couldn’t have made a better choice with PUNCH columnist Gonz Duque as its recommended first chairman/executive director. It was Gonz (and his committee)…
Punchline
Pangasinenses or Pangasinanes or Pangalatok or Pangalato? Take your pick! By Jun Velasco HAPPY New Ear! We were meaning to use the head “Happy New Ear!” to warn against our common practice of exploding “paputok” (firecrackers) in welcoming the New Year. Hopefully, we’d have less casualties this time with P-Noy’s…
Think about it
Chito has a good idea to reconcile for Benjie and Belen By Gonzalo Duque OUR New Year’s wish: the political reconciliation of Mayor Benjie Lim and Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez. On this account, our cumpadre, Councilor Chito Samson proposed a sensational idea — “man intsik lara ompiano sikara labat so makatalos,…
Playing with Fire
Let’s relearn the art of being normal By Al S. Mendoza FORGET and forgive? Or forgive and forget? Really now, which comes first? It’s like the chicken-and-egg thing again. Did the egg come first, or the chicken?
General Admission
Christmas wishes By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD Considering that it is not bad to wish and that a wish is but a yearning, attending to the practice that Christmas time is the customary occasion to make wishes and that anybody can make a wish or two, the following wishful thoughts…
Viewpoints
“United we stand, divided we fall” By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. UNLIKE the other national sports associations in swimming, equestrian, badminton and especially cycling, the just one-month old power squabbling in our national football association was quickly resolved. It was made possible by the swift verdict of the sports world…
Sports Eye
Polka dots and 12 round fruits By Marifi Jara ILHA de Mozambique–My senior high school niece, via e-mail, has recently asked me to help her in shaping up her thesis paper. She wants to do something on ‘Filipino traditions that are disappearing’. I gave her some guidelines and suggestions, and…
