Dagupan City, soon a ‘coliform-capital’? Payback time for Dagupan City government’s official neglect of its environs and sanitary practices in the barangays is here. If it isn’t bad enough that the Lim administration has failed to deliver on its promises to construct a sanitary landfill, to close the dumpsite and…

The lies and myths about parliament-unicameral system Now that the solicitation of signatures to support of the People’s Initiative in Pangasinan is over but the verification by Comelec, those who signed the supposed petition but failed to understand what the exercise was all about, can now recall the “facts” told…

A last call for the elders of Pangasinan THE People’s Initiative ostensibly for the amendment of the Constitution was finally launched last week amid charges and accusations of signature-buying and black propaganda between interest-political groups. Interestingly, the prime-movers, Sigaw ng Bayan Movement claimed early success but could not explain how…

The People’s Initiative? Or the Trapos’ Initiative The die is finally cast. The congress express train bound for ignominy rolled off over the weekend. The excited congressmen led by Speaker Jose de Venecia have no doubt the noblest plans for a country that they described today as hopelessly mired in…

 Preparing for a safe, fun summer it’s summertime and the living is easy”, so goes the song. But nothing can be farther from the truth in the province’s peace and order context. Summer can mean a lot of headaches for everyone, from parents to their children, town officials to the…

Dagupan as a model for Pangasinan Last week, the city government of Dagupan was fortunate to have been chosen as one among five Asian cities to receive a P5.5 million grant from the United States Agency for International Development to fund its Program for Hydro-Meteorological Risk Mitigation in Secondary Cities…

Resisting the State’s intimidation of the Press   The SUNDAY PUNCH joins the Philippine Press Institute in expressing its grave concerns “over attempts to curtail press freedom following President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s declaration of a state of national emergency.”             Below is PPI’s statement. “A newspaper’s editorial office and printing…

 Parking, long neglected problem     THE number of private vehicles from out-of-town drawn to the city presently is evidently on the rise proportionate to the increase of crowd-drawing establishments mushrooming here and there, like mega malls, student dorms and boarding houses. These, in addition to the three  growing universities…

Fire-fighting force in crowded Dagupan   Fires, unlike certain native fruits, are not seasonal and are bound to break out anytime of either night or day. And most areas in the community conducive to fire are the crowded residential neighborhoods, especially the slums where squatters abound and where lighting at…

Take a bow, Pangasinan The Private Schools Athletics Association (PRISAA) games end today, Sunday, following a  week-long sports competition among some 3, 495 athletes from private schools in the country’s 16 regions. Pangasinenses hope that both victors and the vanquished, with their medals and pains, shall long remember the not…