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February 2012

Collect from all

By | Punch Forum

Edwin T 11 Feb 2012   Re: Dagupan collected measly P81-T from fish trade Her Highness Belen Fernandez is aghast that a measly P81,000 was collected by City Agriculture Office’s (CAO) last year. One has to wonder how much taxes Madam Belen paid in taxes from her fishponds. It has…

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Collect from all

By February 20, 2012Punch Forum

Our People Have Not Forgotten

By | News, Our People Have Not Forgotten

Paging MAYOR BENJAMIN LIM:             Please account for the P16 million lost by the city for the failed sanitary landfill project.   Paging POLICE PROVINCIAL DIRECTOR ROSUETO RICAFORTE:             When will you order your city and town chiefs to arrest illegal gambling den maintainers openly operating the “Drop Ball” game…

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Our People Have Not Forgotten

Editorial

By | Editorial, News

Stop plagiarism THE advent of the World Wide Web has given us a new kind of freedom – access to an almost bottomless amount of information. And the introduction of search engines, the most popular of which comes in the form of www.google.com, has provided us with the power to…

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Editorial

By February 20, 2012Editorial, News

Punchline

By | Opinion, Punchline

Work ethic  By Ermin Garcia Jr.   
  LEST I am misunderstood, my recent items on the rampant plagiarism that afflicted both print media practitioners and teachers in the province were prompted by a need to make the ill-advised professionals realize that work ethic is primordial in the practice of a…

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Punchline

By February 20, 2012Opinion, Punchline

Think about it

By | Archives, Opinion

JdV, Tito Primicias: V Day greeters By Jun Velasco “Judge not, that you be not judged.” — Matthew 7: 1 A LOT of people have told us the angry exchange at the impeachment trial has sort of made the country a hate-country. An ironic twist of our reputation as a…

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Think about it

By February 20, 2012Archives, Opinion

Playing with Fire

By | Archives, Opinion

Good work, Governor! By Gonzalo Duque AT LAST, per advice of elder brod Cesar, our pen puts to rest our commentary on Dr. Voltaire Arzadon. Pasalamat siya for free advertising. He has become very popular because of our column. Mahal yon, pare Ermin, di ba? Anyway, we did it not only for Cesar actually…

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Playing with Fire

By February 20, 2012Archives, Opinion

Viewpoints

By | Archives, Opinion

On Top of the Situation By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD TAKEN either in the good or pejorative sense, someone said to be “on top of the situation” implies and says one and the same thing. It means that the person concerned has controlling coverage over an issue under consideration, has…

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Viewpoints

By February 20, 2012Archives, Opinion