Urgent mission for our Congressmen THE House of Representatives (HOR) will soon hold a committee hearing on a bill filed opposing the move of the Land Transportation Franchise and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) and the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to permanently ban provincial buses along EDSA. While Pangasinan has no…

Solution to flooding needs total approach THE creation of the Anti-Flooding Commission by the Lim administration is a step in the right direction. However, from the initial description of the commission’s mandate, one gets the impression that the study’s parameters are inclusive of the city’s physical boundaries only. Following the…

New initiatives for war on drugs THE war on drugs in Pangasinan is levelling up with yet another approach that will surely impact on efforts to keep our families safe, thanks to the announced plans of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office, headed today by P/Colonel Rederico Maranan as provincial director….

Mandatory drug testing for college students THE campaign against illegal drugs will take the fight one notch higher with the start of the school year barring any legal court order to stop it. An order from the Commission of Higher Education issued on October 26, 2018 directed colleges and universities…

Your PUNCH is 63 years old! WE sure have come a long way since our founder, the late Ermin Erfe-Garcia, gave life to our newspaper in July 1956. Few will now remember how life in Pangasinan was in 1956 through the 70s but we do. The PUNCH was there throughout…