June 30, 2025 in Punchline

Mayor Belen’s political will did it

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE rainy season is here, now comes the time to validate or question the decision of the DPWH and the Mayor Belen Fernandez administration, whether the elevation of the major commercial roads and the drainage system was the right thing to do. The elevation projects…
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June 26, 2025 in Punchline

FOI for Dagupan City?

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   WHY do the Dagupan’s 7 epaLIFE members at the city council think that an ordinance further amplifying the implementation of the Freedom of Information is needed? The draft is not only redundant and meaningless, but it also does not add anything substantial to the declared…
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June 17, 2025 in Punchline

Who knows the impeachment complaints?

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   AT the rate the impeachment fever is affecting most everyone, we may soon see a loose cannonball that’s going to wreak havoc aimlessly in our faces. Yet, if one looks closely at the facts, there’s hardly anything that should make people highly emotional about the…
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June 7, 2025 in Punchline

Time to move on, epaLIFEs

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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May 31, 2025 in Punchline

Pause

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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