Time for serious study, planning THERE is little to add about the extent of damages wrought by the back-to-back typhoons and monsoon rains that hit the province. There is only one undeniable fact that can be said – our province will likely suffer more in the months and years ahead…

Your Sunday PUNCH is 62 years old OUR past 52 issues since July 2017 pointed to challenging times for Pangasinan.  In the middle of it all were the efforts of the Pangasinan police, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and the local governments to sustain the early gains of the war on…

Alert for 2018 election THE seeming rash of killings of local elected officials in the countryside is the indicator that the 2018 election is on the horizon for incumbents and wannbes. Fortunately for Pangasinan, political violence has been reduced to a very minimum level and in very few localities. But…

Dagupan as ICT central THE recent move of the Dagupan City government to begin laying down the foundation to make the city a truly a center for information and communications technology (ICY) by seeking to define incentives for establishments is in the right direction. Indeed, no one comes to a…

The Cardinal and the Archbishop FOR too long, the Catholic laity have been getting mixed signals from their two eminent church leaders: Luis Cardinal Tagle and Archbishop Socrates Villegas. While both were critical of the Duterte Administration, pointing gout what they perceive as acts of the government that go against…