PDU30’s advocacy: Firecracker ban AT the rate firecracker manufacturers were developing and selling their products guaranteeing louder explosions but without warning the public of serious and dire consequences to life and limb, this year would definitely see more casualties crowding emergency rooms of hospitals. But thanks to the wisdom of…

What Christmas is and isn’t ‘TIS the 61st Christmas for the Sunday Punch, and the 10th, 20th, 50th for most families and we hall have had different ways of celebrating it over the years. Over the years, we noted with sadness how the spiritual aspect of Christmas has been slowly…

The Pangasinan Sports Academy, at last! FINALLY, the dream of the father was made a reality by the son. We refer to former Gov. Amado Espino Jr.’s vision to make Pangasinan’s athletes and sportsmen a major source of pride by establishing the Pangasinan Sports Academy in his last term. Fortunately…

A salute to Guv Espino and the 32 mayors LIFE in Pangasinan in 2016 was a good year as attested to by the awarding of the Seal of Good Local Governance to the Espino provincial administration, and to the province’s four cities and 28 towns. After all, the Seal of Good…

Urgent twin strategy THE collapse of the peace talks with the NDFP-CPP-NPA forebodes of not just skirmishes but of several major armed offensives. While we can expect our government’s military and police forces to effectively counter these, it cannot be expected to result in overnight dissipation of the forces of…