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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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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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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May 20, 1966, a non-event day in Dagupan
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…
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Lessons from 2025 elections
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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