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Time to move on, epaLIFEs

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By Ermin Garcia Jr.   I had hoped the 7 epaLIFE in Dagupan’s city council had already learned their lesson in Public Service 101 after they were dumped around the city’s 60-year-old dumpsite in their attempt to be reelected, but they didn’t. Did they honestly think that by rushing the…

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Time to move on, epaLIFEs

By June 7, 2025Punchline

Pause

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By Ermin Garcia Jr.   AFTER more than 69 years filling up the pages of Punchline, started by my father in 1956, I find the need to pause, not to end,  possibly to reset, and hopefully give it more purpose. This could be the reason why our Heavenly Creator deliberately…

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Pause

By May 31, 2025Punchline

Lessons from 2025 elections

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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,…

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Lessons from 2025 elections

By May 19, 2025Punchline

Can LIFE survive without INC?

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By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE endorsement of the whole Unliserbisyo team of Belen Fernandez-Bryan Kua by the Iglesia ni Cristo must have come as a big shock to the LIFE barkada and mother-son team of Celia and Brian Lim. It will be recalled that son Brian arrogantly warned of…

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Can LIFE survive without INC?

By May 11, 2025Punchline

Meet Ermin Erfe Garcia

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By Ermin Garcia Jr.   TO commemorate the 104th birthday of my late father, our founder editor-publisher, on April 25, and to allow PUNCH readers a chance to know a tidbit of his personal life, I’m reposting here an interview of him recorded by the late Fr. Arsenio Jesena, S.J….

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Meet Ermin Erfe Garcia

By April 29, 2025Punchline

Lim Mother-son-daughter politics

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By Ermin Garcia Jr.   ON hearing and watching ex-mayor Brian Lim constantly blasting Belen Fernandez administration for its “failed” governance, many wonder why son Brian filed for the vice mayoralty post and not for the mayoralty post. Why was mother Celia made to file for the mayoralty post when…

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Lim Mother-son-daughter politics

By April 21, 2025Punchline

More lies and deception from LIFE team

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By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE LIFE team of the Lim mother-son in Dagupan City recently held a grand presscon for another set of lies and deception for public consumption apparently organized by ex-Mayor Brian Lim, who is vying for the vice-mayoralty post in Dagupan City. Curiously, it’s his mother,…

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More lies and deception from LIFE team

By April 14, 2025Punchline