By Ermin Garcia Jr. ON May 21, 1966, the country was agog. It was a day after Ermin Erfe Garcia, a community journalist in Dagupan City, was shot and killed in his Sunday Punch editorial office. It took then President Ferdinand E. Marcos to issue a “shoot-to-kill’ order against…
By Gonzalo Duque WE had Mayor Belen as our guest during our podcast The Punching Duo last May 17. Ermin and I observed that Mayor Belen is now a picture of a relaxed public servant, having won by a margin of more than 40,000 votes. Indeed, she can now…
By Leonardo Micua IT is sad to note that not one of our homegrown party-list groups won a congressional seat in the May 12 elections. This is the first time that one of the most populous provinces in the country is not sending a party-list representative to the House….
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo WE moved to The Celandine on May 2. It is a high-rise residential development project by D.M. Consunji, Inc. (DMCI) built on a land area of 8,600 square meters at Balingasa, commonly known as Balintawak and Cloverleaf, an urban barangay in Quezon City, near its…
By Farah G. Decano BEFORE the public cries this slogan once more, President Bongbong Marcos made an anticipatory remedial move. He dismissed his cabinet secretaries, allegedly due to the disappointing performance of his candidates in the recent elections. Some opinion writers suggest that he acted rashly, seeking a scapegoat…
By Eva C. Visperas ON a blistering May morning in Barangay San Bartolome, Rosales, Pangasinan, something monumental quietly took place — an act so sincere, so deeply rooted in compassion and responsibility, that it demands not just acknowledgment, but praise. It was not just about land titles. It was…
By Rex Catubig I often wonder what spell it casts, but among the months, May is embedded in our consciousness, not for the colorful events it celebrates– the fiestas, Flores de Mayo, Santacruzan– but for the simple memories it holds amid the flamboyance of summer. May is youth remembered….
By Ermin Garcia Jr. LIKE many other pundits out there who’ve offered their points of view on how the 2025 midterm elections went, permit me to share my thoughts. It’s encouraging that there has been no claim of grand-scale cheating via our new automated counting machines so far. However,…
By Gonzalo Duque LET us congratulate the winners of the just-concluded national and local elections. To those who did not make it, my magnanimous message to you is, “better luck next time” and learn from the wisdom of our great philosopher that “service to humanity is the best work…
By Leonardo Micua THE UnliSerbisyo team of Dagupan made history of sorts when it scored a near sweep of the May 12 elections at the expense of the opposition group led by the Lim mother and son tandem. Credit it to the hard work of Mayor Belen Fernandez who campaigned…
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