PUNCHITERIA
Editorial Cartoon
Looking good SPRUCING up the police stations and setting up special booths in busy areas to increase visibility and function as an extension office for the delivery of services to the public are welcome news from the provincial police director last week. A physically pleasant office fosters pride of place,…
Editorial
Decorp’s dubious business policy By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE continuing impasse in the handling of the Dagupan City government’s order to the Dagupan Electric Corp. (Decorp) to terminate its service contracts for the meter lodged at the MC Adore hotel building, is showing a pattern of lack of responsibility…
Punchline
Hypocrisy By Jun Velasco “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened,” God’s Little devotional Book II OUR very own beloved prelate Archbishop Socrates Villegas, the CBCP president, has his way of deploring the bruising national reality…
Think about it
Reconciliation thru Jayceeism By Gonzalo Duque THANKS to the Chinese New Year, we, Dagupenos, had a grand time discovering what a wondrous thing the Children Park has become! Parang Disneyland! We should thank Mayor Belen Fernandez for it. Kung Hei Fat Choi! There’s Chinese lineage in almost all of…
Playing with Fire
The importance of Pacquiao-Bradley fight By Al S. Mendoza IT is now a done deal. Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley will fight on April 12 (April 13 in Manila) in Las Vegas. If you ask me, I’ll call this bout a very politically correct match-up. Anytime, I’m going to give…
General Admission
Soon a drug-free Asingan? By Bebot Villar THE last time I checked, umaabot na sa 80 katao ang nagkasakit ng tigdas o measles sa Pangasinan mula noong January 1. I was told that 26 out of 80 are mostly children, and still confined at Pangasinan Provincial Hospital (PPH) in…
Deretsahan
CBCP Pastoral Exhortation on Philippine Economy (1998) By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD FORMALLY released for public knowledge and understanding, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) addressed the Filipino people about its honest perception of the Philippine economy some 16 years ago. Its over-all content can be summed up…
