Second straight PBA title for Cone? By Al S. Mendoza FATE just played a cruel joke on both Petron Blaze and Barangay Ginebra. Petron stormed to a 7-game winning streak at the start of the PLDT MyDSL PBA Philippine Cup, only to sputter before eking out a trip to…
No report on peace and order? By Bebot Villar LAST Monday, my friend and kumpadre, Governor Spines, reported to the people of Pangasinan through his State of the Province Address sa kapitolyo sa Lingayen. Saludo tayo sa kanyang napakaraming accomplishments for the past six and a half years of…
CBCP Pastoral Exhortation on Philippine Culture (1999) By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD THIS section proffers the honest endeavor and consequent deliberate effort of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines to describe and qualify the perceived realities and key implications of the Philippine Culture. It does this by dealing…
Javier, new pride of Pangasinan By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. DUATHLON is not one of the sports that Pangasinenses are passionate about. Well, we could have at least 20 trained duathletes in the province today but despite the scarcity of the ‘run-bike-run’ event, Pangasinan has produced (so far), four national…
Kiew na bilay tan kakabatan Nen Santiago Villafania MAKAPAERMEN ya lapu labat ed piugagep dan napaawang so dalan ono karsada et nakaulan nin natiguay ira’y kiew a ngali la mansanlasus a taon ed tatken. Pilatek to ni na lasin Mark Cojuangco ya kargo to kono ta sikato si kinmerew…
Second (or nth) chances By Johanne Margarette R. Macob HAPPY Valentine! As I write this, I’m sure everyone is already sending one another their Valentine greetings. And perhaps, by the time this issue hits the streets, some are still celebrating the season of love. Me, I still believe in love….
Vindication By Ermin Garcia Jr. WE, in the PUNCH, feel fully vindicated by the decision of the Pasig City assistant prosecutor dismissing the libel complaint filed by the Citystate Savings Bank (owned by businessman Antonio Cabangon Chua) against eight of PUNCH staff (and Mr. Jojo Liwag of Decorp) over…
We remember Martin Luther King Jr. By Jun Velasco “Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that,” Martin Luther King Jr. THERE’s this guy who is hooked in illegal activities–jueteng, fishpens, gambling, etc.– who does not see the point why we have laws. Could this be…
Restore the old Dagupan seal! By Gonzalo Duque DAGUPAN’S respected artist Alex Villaflor, a former Jaycees Inc. president, was mumbling to us, while we were in a National Culture and Arts Commission orientation seminar last week that it was utterly wrong for the past city administration to change the…
Defining smuggling, stealing By Al S. Mendoza IS there rice smuggling really? If we listened on radio or watched on TV the past Senate hearings investigating alleged rice smuggling, it would seem none. And yet, before the probes, it’s been reported that the government has been losing an average…
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