By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo WE undergo many changes as we continue with our life. Some changes are shaped by experience, some by a strong link to our DNA. Some parts of what we are continue to be the same. Impulses, spontaneous responses to stimuli, often go deeper than the…
By Farah G. Decano TITO Ermin, please accept my mea culpa. As a former legislator, I regret that I was not able to pass a resolution to honor your father, Ermin Garcia Sr.’s, profound heroism. While you never sought his recognition, I take full responsibility for this oversight –…
By Eva C. Visperas A shift is underway in the Philippine National Police (PNP), one that might redefine public service and community security in the years to come. It began with a bold challenge from the newly installed PNP Chief Gen. Nicolas Torre III and echoed through the hallways…
By Rex Catubig NOTE: This article pays tribute to the lives of those hardy individuals who dared to break out of the mold in a cruel and uncertain time, and face an unwelcoming world. The Pride Month of June seeks to review that world, to overcome the gay stereotype,…
IS there no magnanimity, decency, or benevolence or honor between and among our local politicians after the elections? Is there nothing more that our young can learn from our elder politicians, that after all the fun distributions of ayuda, obvious exchanges of black propaganda in social media that they can…
AMID SUSPENSION ROW AMID a tense standoff on May 26 at the Sual Municipal Hall in the presence of officials from the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the police, the town’s legal officer, Gerald Velasco, clarified in a media interview that Mayor Liseldo ‘Dong’ Calugay remains…
FISHING IN LINGAYEN GULF—Fishermen help each other pull a long net to the shore to gather the fish that they caught from the sea in the early morning of May 29 in Lingayen. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
TENSION remains high in Sual two weeks after the May 12 elections as the town’s vice mayor-elect received a threat on his life on May 24 in the form of two M-16 rifle bullets wrapped in one of his campaign leaflets. Incoming Vice Mayor Max Millan, currently a town councilor,…
A former local treasury executive of San Carlos City was acquitted by a regional court of the charge of malversation through falsification involving P9 million in public funds withdrawn in 2009. In a 37-page decision issued on April 28, 2025, Pangasinan Regional Trial Court Branch 77 Presiding Judge Rhodalyn N….
TO0-LATE-THE-HERO THE six defeated opposition councilors who still make up the majority in the current Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP), with only five sessions left before six of them leave their posts, want to bind the city government with their drafts of ordinances for recurring expenses in the form of allowances…
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