Politics in food aid distribution By Leonardo Micua IT is quite disgusting if not revolting to know that politics still rear its ugly head in many places even while we are still in the midst of our painstaking battle against COVID-19 and under the General Community Quarantine. A case in…
A hero newspaperman is a dead newspaperman By Ermin Garcia Jr. ON May 20, Wednesday, our PUNCH family will observe the 54th death anniversary of my father, Ermin Garcia (EG), our founder-editor-publisher (1955-1966)! It was on May 20, 1966 when a politician, then Councilor Martin Soriano of Lingayen went…
The best and the worst By Al S. Mendoza WE love to say that each time a calamity strikes, the best and the worst come forward. Whether typhoons or earthquakes, fires or plagues, two sets of people raise their hands—ostensibly to serve with all their hearts and minds. Usually…
Holy Water By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo GOOD evening, Dark Night! Not a drizzle, but an outpouring of rain. The rhythmic dripping enthralls, this solemn silence that feels like holy water. Not the bottled water poured over infants as they were baptized that required so many rituals to make holy….
Bike lanes nationwide soon in PH? By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. FOR more than a decade now, some of our lawmakers and many cycling groups in the country are clamoring for the establishment of bicycle lanes nationwide. Yes, there are some bike lanes now in the cities of Marikina, Pasig,…
Timely response from Guv By Leonardo Micua AS we write this column, Typhoon ‘Ambo” is lashing Eastern Luzon, and typhoon signal no. 1 is up in eastern and central Pangasinan. This, while we are still in the midst of our continuing battle against the deadly COVID-19. The memorandum of…
This tunnel of lights, of hearts, of life By Jing Villamil SHE wished for a symbol that would again awaken her people’s hearts, their hopes and sights. Because, for the recent past, their collective hearts had throbbed merely to survive; and their hopes and sights had merely peered round…
Dangerous mindset By Ermin Garcia Jr. OVER the past week, it was not difficult to see the relax mood of residents in Pangasinan, particularly in Dagupan City, notwithstanding the continued implementation of the Enhanced Community Quarantine in the province. With people freely moving around barangays and commercial areas, one…
Did NTC infringe on Congress’s power re ABS-CBN case? By Al S. Mendoza CHANNEL 2 of media TV giant ABS-CBN closed its programming on May 5. That was in compliance of a May 5 order by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC). Two other ABS-CBN radio stations (dzMM and MRR)…
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