No promises THE nation listened to President Benigno S. Aquino III’s final State of the Nation Address, and waited with bated breath how he intends to deliver on his unfulfilled campaign promises before he bows out. The two-hour speech that came and went simply left millions wondering if PNoy actually…

Lessons from the monsoon rains THE recent onslaught of a 15-day downpour that hit the province caused by monsoon rains will by no means be the last. It was not one of those calamitous typhoons but still it was enough to cause some damage to properties and lives. It could…

Suspending classes selectively WHILE saving lives and properties are important in the face of calamities, a needless disruption of the education of Pangasinan’s young has to be avoided consciously. This should be the primary motivation behind the proposal to nix the present government policy of a declaration of “No Classes”…

Your Sunday Punch is 59 years old IT’S been quite a journey since our late editor-publisher Ermin Erfe Garcia founded The PUNCH and published its first issue on July 5, 1956. Here are some trivia that are perhaps unknown to today’s generation. The PUNCH was preceded by a newspaper “Pioneer…

The good and the bad WHAT President Aquino could not, and refused to do, the Ombudsman did – it sacked former PNP Chief Director-General Alan Purisima, himself a former provincial chief of Pangasinan! He was given his due after Malacanang thought it could arrange a deal that would allow the…