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April 2011

Dream of newer models

By | Punch Forum

Jose Ceralde 2 Apr 2011   Re: Terrifying at first Edwin, Your last posting is exactly the point of lots of posters trying to give you some sense. You do not want to build rickety dilapidated and outmoded nuclear plant in Pangasinan to be repaired and updated like your refineries….

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Dream of newer models

By April 5, 2011Punch Forum

Editorial

By | Editorial, News

Responsible mining MINING is not the most popular of industries, what with reports of abuse by companies on the labor force, the local communities, and the environment. Understandably so as minerals are not an unlimited natural resource. At some point, a mining operation will have to end, leaving the area…

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Editorial

By April 4, 2011Editorial, News

Punchline

By | Opinion, Punchline

Shameful By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE (partial) veto message of City Mayor Benjie Lim was littered with venomous language directed at the sanggunian, i.e., “sinister political agenda”… “wrongfully and fictionally portraying”… “blatant ignorance” …”perverted, counterproductive and unconscionable system”… “tragically and incomprehensibly”… “tedious round of power play”…”politically-motivated malevolence, without shame”… “leadership…

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Punchline

By April 4, 2011Opinion, Punchline

Think about it

By | Archives, Opinion

Pangasinan Today “The journey is the reward.”—Chinese Proverb WE got a mountain-full of magnificent goods that our beloved province possesses we haven’t seen before from the oratorical pieces delivered by six contestants at the Sison Auditorium last Monday. The masterpieces were Pangasinan-centered and so were novel, fresh, straight from the heart — unlike the run-of-the-mill, high sounding topics local orators would…

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Think about it

By April 4, 2011Archives, Opinion

Playing with Fire

By | Archives, Opinion

Guest speakers, not guest spenders By Gonzalo Duque THE maiden edition of Media in Action, a breakfast forum every Wednesday of the Pangasinan Press Club, was, to say the least, a big success. Guest speaker Mark Cojuangco, former congressman and earlier ardent advocate of nuclear power, proved to be articulate and…

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Playing with Fire

By April 4, 2011Archives, Opinion

Viewpoints

By | Archives, Opinion

“Kawawa naman, walang magawa ang payaso” By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD THUS thinks and speaks a leading national broadsheet about the antics of someone who precisely appears to have the haughty Spanish blood and flamboyant spirit of “Damaso” running in his veins and invading his mind. Translation of the above…

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Viewpoints

By April 4, 2011Archives, Opinion

Roots

By | Archives, Opinion

Kwentong beauty parlor By Marifi Jara AMIDST the frenzy of coming home, one of the first things I always do is get a badly needed haircut. Not that there aren’t any beauty salons in Mozambique. In fact there are many. Hair parlors are quite aplenty in African countries as getting…

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Roots

By April 4, 2011Archives, Opinion