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August 2011

Disenfranchising students

By | Punch Forum

Leonardo j Galvez 24 Aug 2011  Re: Lim bent on hospital project No doubt about it, the proposed Dagupan City Hospital is a laudable project. It’s high time the city should have its own. The provincial hospital now regional is not city-owned, a belief that has mistakenly been passed on…

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Disenfranchising students

By August 25, 2011Punch Forum

Editorial

By | Editorial, News

Search and destroy THERE is nothing new about the rains. It may have started earlier this year than it normally does, but we are by now accustomed to the erratic variations in weather as attributed to the global phenomenon of climate change. And so preventive measures and solutions to the…

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Editorial

By August 22, 2011Editorial, News

Punchline

By | Opinion, Punchline

Denial King today, White Elephant King tomorrow? By Ermin Garcia Jr. DAGUPAN City’s Mayor Benjie Lim is undoubtedly on a denial mode, making him the city’s runaway “Denial King”. First, he acts and talks today like the failed sanitary landfill that cost the city a whooping P16 million never happened….

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Punchline

By August 22, 2011Opinion, Punchline

Think about it

By | Archives, Opinion

‘Nakuryente!’ By Jun Velasco “Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world.“—Anon WELCOME home to your native Pangasinan soil, Claire Yen, world-renowned artist of boxing icon Manny Pacquiao! Claire’s mother, former Syncletica Bugayong Toledo of Bugallon town, was schoolmate of former Lingayen Mayor Josefina Vila Castaneda, wife of Mayor Jonas, from…

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Think about it

By August 22, 2011Archives, Opinion

Viewpoints

By | Archives, Opinion

“WOW Philippines“   By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD JUST remembering. So brief but many intriguing possibilities it said. So plain but pleasant thoughts it evoked. So plain but big wonders it caused. This was the combined precious and loaded message that “Wow Philippines!” very well delivered and so long remembered….

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Viewpoints

By August 22, 2011Archives, Opinion