Fernandez, the best mayor of Dagupan City By Gonzalo Duque AFTER a time of joy (Christmas) let’s face the New Year with hope and achievement. We’ve been asked to comment on the presidency of our citymate Vice Mayor Brian Lim in the world Jaycees. Timely. We’d say it’s the…
TRAIN to trigger good life to all By Al S. Mendoza BARELY 16 months after he was catapulted to the highest position of the land, President Duterte has earned his dream tax package. If that is not a record feat, what is? The new reform law also known as…
Loose change By Virginia J. Pasalo LA UNION representative and former Agoo mayor Sandra Eriguel is proposing to carve out 26, 0000 hectares out of 31,000 hectares of forest and watershed along both sides of the Marcos Highway, an area declared protected by Presidential Proclamation 1754, signed by President…
2017’s top local sports events By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. YEAR 2017 is gone, welcome 2018, “Year of the Dog,” as the Chinese say. Although with skepticism, I wish and hope 2018 will really be a prosperous year for all of us. To God be the glory. Looking back at…
The North Vista Year Ender By @SiRVis A travel journal that will give you a pleasant view of people, places, food, culture, history and events from a refreshing perspective 2017 was indeed the year of travel! The North Vista started its maiden voyage in Sunday Punch last January…
LEONIE IS HOME – My tukayo, US-based Leonardo Galvez, The PUNCH’s US-correspondent and one-time staff member of The Punch and a former official of the Department of Education in Pangasinan since Tito Primicias was governor, came to The Punch office and treated us and some of the staff at Jana’s for lunch….
Not everything virtual is good By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE Christmas I enjoyed in my youth (from the late 50s to the late 60s) is gone…for good. For instance, I know I will never get to see teens, parents, lolos and lolas crowding sections in bookstores for Hallmark greeting…
‘True Birth date of Jesus Christ’ By Gonzalo Duque OUR column last week that mentioned about the local press club and the need to get reorganized has awakened everyone’s interest on the subject. Ok tayo dyan ha, with Orly Navarro’s Mona Lisa smile, to have intellectual sis-in-law publisher-editor Mita…
Happiness the Narvasa way By Al S. Mendoza HAPPINESS is Christmas, especially in the land of your birth. And so, to Kuya Leonie (Galvez), my dearest friend from Los Angeles, welcome home after spending Christmas the last 27 years in the U.S. of A. No place like home, Kuya….
Condom By Virginia J. Pasalo HER father had been ill for ten years. She will have him cremated next week, after all the relatives are gone, with her mother and siblings attending, a quick reunion to honor the passing. “Makapasangit. Inasikaso na met ti lamay. Kasla inayat na met.”…
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