PUNCHITERIA
Editorial Cartoon
Where is the local police? THERE have been regular reports of drug dealers being arrested in buy-bust operations in different parts of the province, but this is noticeably mainly coming from the regional office of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and not the local police. And so it begs the…
Editorial
The P1.5 M question By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE opinion of DILG’s Legal Service Director Jesus Doque IV finding the city council resolution that was hastily passed in a special session called by Mayor Benjie Lim last April 20 as infirmed from the very beginning must have made the faces…
Punchline
Pangasinan writers pay homage to Perla Samson Nelmida By Jun Velasco “When the Great Scorer comes to write against your name, he marks not whether you won or lost but how you played the game,” Grantland Rice, American sportswriter who died 1954 UNBELIEF, a mortal sin when applied to Christian tenets, has…
Think about it
Basura, basura, basura, basura, basura, basura… By Gonzalo Duque WE could go ad infinitum. Why are we going nuts over our garbage problem in the city? Why not? Are you not? It should in fact be the first, the most basic and the most elementary issue that should face…
Playing with Fire
Pacquiao defeat produced more questions than answers By Al S. Mendoza I goofed. I win some, I lose some. Life’s indisputable rule. I said Manny Pacquiao would win. By knockout inside six rounds. It didn’t happen. Pacquiao did not even win by decision. He lost by split decision to…
General Admission
Kawawa si Madelaine at ang Dagupan By Bebot Villar HOW many more innocent lives would be sacrificed because of the evil effects of drugs? At kailan din kaya matatauhan ang mga local leaders natin before they finally get their acts together for a no-nonsense anti-drug abuse campaign? Kailangan pa bang…
Deretsahan
Gambling Economy By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD THERE are no less than some thirty two (32) different forms of illegal gambling in the Philippines – from “Alpor” to “Video Karera.” Furthermore, there are also more than seventeen modalities (17) of the called legal gambling in the country – from Bacarat…
