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‘First 100 Days’ of governor, mayors

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

‘TIS the time for reckoning between the newly elected and/or reelected local officials and their respective constituents in Pangasinan. Their first 100 days are over this week. Traditionally, the governor and mayors are expected to report, putting their best foot forward, with the hope that they will be seen as…

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‘First 100 Days’ of governor, mayors

Wanted: Strategic responses to climate change

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

PANGASINAN should count its blessings that TC Karding spared it from what could have been a large-scale disaster.  But before our provincial government turns around to resume its routine business, here’s a breaking news that should keep our provincial officials remain focused. PAGASA already warned that six to nine tropical…

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Wanted: Strategic responses to climate change

The hybrid pork barrel

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

THE exposé of Senator Alan Peter Cayetano about DPWH’s “fund parking’ or the illegal realignment of billions of pesos in the infrastructure department’s 2023 budget is an indication that the 30-40% “S.O.P.” from favored contractors is back with a vengeance. This involves allocation of projects in various districts, and it…

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The hybrid pork barrel

By September 26, 2022Editorial, Punch Gallery

Accountability in cover-up of Dagupan scholarship fund mess

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

THE discovery of deliberate misuse and exploitation of the scholarship fund program by unscrupulous officials of the Brian Lim administration for political purposes and, obviously, for self-aggrandizement is the height of contemptuous conduct of a public official. The temerity of councilors belonging to the majority in the Dagupan Sanggunian to…

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Accountability in cover-up of Dagupan scholarship fund mess

By September 19, 2022Editorial, Punch Gallery

Barangays vs. deadly dengue, gastroenteritis, leptospirosis

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

WHILE the national government continues to focus its attention on the infection rate of COVID-19 in the regions, the Pangasinan provincial government must not lose sight of the seasonal illnesses that infect communities during the rainy season- and can cause death: Dengue from mosquitoes. Gastroenteritis mainly from polluted drinking water….

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Barangays vs. deadly dengue, gastroenteritis, leptospirosis

By September 5, 2022Editorial, Punch Gallery

Fake shortages of basic commodities can be stopped

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

THERE has never been a year when our national and local governments did not announce a shortage in rice, sugar, vegetables, in our local markets.  There was always a shortage of commodities but never a shortage of criminal trading syndicates in our midst who have most of our key officials…

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Fake shortages of basic commodities can be stopped

Negative impact of climate change

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

OVER the past months, many communities in low-lying areas in Pangasinan, particularly in Dagupan City, that were usually safe from flooding suddenly find themselves having to cope with knee-deep flooding during torrential rains aggravated by high tide. These occurrences can no longer pooh-poohed as unusual and out of the ordinary…

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Negative impact of climate change

Unfinished drug war

By | Editorial

PHILIPPINE Drug Enforcement Agency recently confirmed that only 941 barangays (83%)  out of 1,136 in Pangasinan have been declared “drug-cleared” since the drug war launched by the Duterte administration. There are still 195 barangays that remain to be cleared. Still the number does not include the number of the drug-cleared…

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Unfinished drug war

By August 7, 2022Editorial