By Ermin Garcia Jr. DAGUPAN’s notorious 7epaLiFes at the Sangguning Panlungsod must be gloating over their successful efforts in embarrassing the Belen Fernandez administration for remaining in the cellar with the least creditable performance in public service among the cities in the region. Of course, the 7epaLiFes, dumb as…
By Gonzalo Duque CONGRATULATIONS to The Sunday Punch for adding another milestone in its history as a fighting community newspaper—its 68th anniversary. The Sunday Punch is now the longest surviving community newspaper in the country today. The Baguio Midland Courier, the oldest community newspaper in Baguio and the Cordilleras…
By Leonardo Micua NO one has to doubt the report that Dagupan is in the tail end among all cities in Region 1 for its performance given the kind of councilors that the people elected in 2022. Using their number as the majority, the seven councilors in the opposition…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo THE poem Asawa (Pupok ti Kapia) was inspired by Cage of Peace, one of the paintings of Belgian surrealist artist René François Ghislain Magritte, known for his provocative “depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts”. My interpretation of his work was based on the…
By Farah G. Decano DON’T you think it is presumptuous to call oneself a kingmaker when he or she has produced only one top honcho who actually was not a nobody to start with? President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. was not a nobody in 2010, 2016 or 2022, when…
By Eva C. Visperas LAST Monday, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan session hall was full-packed. I wondered what the agenda was since there were a lot of spectators, seated guests that included newsmen who normally don’t cover the beat. I got a copy of the agenda and I saw a ‘Question Hour…
By Rex Catubig WE call them maid, boy, or katulong, now better known as kasambahay—short for kasama sa bahay–literally, house companion, euphemism for servant, househelp. However condescendingly they are called, they are an indispensable part of the Filipino household. Back in the day, our family had a handyman, a housemaid,…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE brouhaha in social media last week about the fake news labeling Atty. Harry Roque as lobbyist for illegal POGOs was just the tip of the iceberg. It was fake because not even the source of the alleged claim, Pagcor chief Alfredo Tengco, was not…
By Gonzalo Duque IN the United States today, activists are tearing down statues of different historical heroes from as far back as the American Revolution against British autocratic rule, the Civil War and down to World War II. They consider these memorials as irrelevant today and began tearing them…
By Leonardo Micua IT’S been more than one month since the 22 provincial officials returned from their “official” trip to the United States from June 1 to 9, but not one has reported gains made for the province and people from that trip, if any. It is incumbent upon them…
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