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A salute to our women owning sari-sari stores

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

THROUGHOUT the month of March when the world observed it to honor women in our lives and in our country, much about successful endeavors of women were said and attributed to women’s gender equality and empowerment. Women who distinguished in their chosen fields, particularly in male-dominated sectors were celebrated and…

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A salute to our women owning sari-sari stores

Mockery, hypocrisy vs. political will

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

DAGUPEÑOS have seen and heard enough of the diabolical plotting of the Dagupan City councilors in the majority, and inability of the executive to stop them. Bereft of any semblance of civility and respect for the law, the members of the Committee on Finance, Budget and Appropriations, namely, Councilors Redford…

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Mockery, hypocrisy vs. political will

Government’s losing fight vs. hitmen riding-in-tandem

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

THE rash of assassinations of public officials this year is enough to make people wonder if our law enforcement and justice agencies, namely, the Department of Justice and the Philippine National Police, National Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Jail and Management, Philippine Drug Agency authority, etc. are losing the battle…

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Government’s losing fight vs. hitmen riding-in-tandem

Wanted: Credible Sangguniang Panlalawigan

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

IT is bad enough that Pangasinan has a governor in Mr. Ramon Guico III who has assumed a muted governance policy never before witnessed in the province since the 60s! The situation for Pangasinenses is aggravated when the provincial board members have shown willingness to merely do as the governor…

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Wanted: Credible Sangguniang Panlalawigan

Alaminos City’s ‘Discipline Zone’ ordinance

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

THE move of the Alaminos City government to pass and enforce its “Discipline Zone’ ordinance is not only timely but provides a direction that the Sangguniang Panlalawigan should consider adopting as a provincial ordinance to be passed and enforced in all towns and cities. The ordinance hits the core of…

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Alaminos City’s ‘Discipline Zone’ ordinance

By February 27, 2023Editorial, Punch Gallery

When harebrained politicians go berserk

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

THE members of the majority at the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod have lost all sense of reality, shame, and civility when they believed they could turn facts into fiction by deleting accounts and minutes of the proceedings of a regular session, like these never happened. The totally unexpected move of the…

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When harebrained politicians go berserk

By February 19, 2023Editorial, Punch Gallery

Death stalks undisciplined, reckless motorcycle riders

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

THE rise in series of road accidents in Pangasinan resulting in instant bloody deaths of both motorcycle riders and their back riders should already be a cause for alarm for the provincial and local government officialdom and the provincial police. While the move of the Dagupan City government and city…

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Death stalks undisciplined, reckless motorcycle riders

By February 12, 2023Editorial, Punch Gallery

Is Maharlika Investment Fund good for us?

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

SINCE President Marcos Jr. assumed his coveted post in July 2022, his administration has been noted for three things: the most traveled president in six months, spiraling prices of rice, sugar and onions, and last but not the least, the creation and promotion of Maharlika Investment Fund, earlier bandied as…

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Is Maharlika Investment Fund good for us?

By February 5, 2023Editorial, Punch Gallery

Dealing with fake news about suicide, onion farming

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

IT was all a misunderstanding. This may be a politically-correct reaction from the Philippine National Police leadership to the brouhaha over the reported harassment of the widow of an onion farmer who committed suicide, but that is an understatement as well. It was an embarrassing encounter for all the parties…

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Dealing with fake news about suicide, onion farming

By January 30, 2023Editorial, Punch Gallery