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Mamdani transition team receives more than 50K job applications
Former First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, who served from October 8, 2024, to March 14, 2025, before resigning from Mayor Eric Adams’s administration amid alleged corruption scandals, is returning to City Hall under Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. She now becomes the rare public servant appointed by three different mayors, once again stepping into the role of […]
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49.1% of Asian Americans voted for Mamdani: AAF, AALDEF exit poll
1-Asian American voters favored Mamdani for mayor, including 20% of 2024 Trump voters About half (49.1%) of Asian American voters who participated in the exit poll voted for Mamdani and roughly one-third (33.8%) voted for Cuomo. Notably, an overwhelming 87.2% of South Asian voters cast their ballots for Mamdani, while 9.6% voted for Cuomo. Who […]
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The mayor of many firsts
By Cristina DC Pastor Zohran Mamdani has made history on multiple fronts — New York City’s youngest mayor, its first Muslim leader, its first democratic socialist, and the list goes on. His candidacy ignited a political reckoning unlike anything the city has seen in recent memory. Voter turnout surged, political lines deepened, and his magnetic […]
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Mamdani
The FilAm Editorial By the time this issue reaches our readers, Zohran Mamdani will either be the new mayor of New York City—or the democratic socialist who sought to transform city politics through the ballot box but fell short. Predicting the outcome is difficult. This issue closes in the final week of October, just days […]
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Younger generation Filipinos keeping close watch over political corruption
By Allen Gaborro Millions of Filipinos, enraged by the hubris displayed by those behind the 2025 flood project scandals, have been bandying about the words “change,” “reform,” “accountability,” and “justice.” Their collective fury is understandable of course. But they have been there before. Aside from the comparatively more minor cases of corruption that have routinely […]
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Through grit and grief, Bergenfield Councilman Salvador Deauna found politics
By Cristina DC Pastor Salvador ‘Buddy’ Deauna turned 80 in May. After nine years as councilman of Bergenfield, New Jersey, he still could not believe how he ended up in politics. “When people ask me how I got into politics, I always say it was totally unexpected,” he said in an interview with The FilAm. […]
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Filipinos are tired of the rampant corruption, but is Snap Election the answer?
By Ricky Rillera In a political landscape riddled with scandal, cynicism, and eroding public trust, Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano has thrown a grenade into the national conversation: a call for a snap election that would require all top national officials—President, Vice President, Senators, and House Representatives—to resign and bar themselves from running again. […]
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Mayoral candidate James Solomon ‘absolutely’ will not allow ICE to enter Jersey City
By Cristina DC Pastor Out of the seven candidates vying to succeed Steven Fulop as mayor of Jersey City, James Solomon is working to distinguish himself in a crowded field. First elected to the City Council in 2017 after an upset victory against the political machine, Solomon—a cancer survivor—has built a reputation for pushing reforms […]
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Bidding bullshit
By Mary Lou Cunanan Let’s stop pretending this is normal. Sarah Discaya and her husband have turned government bidding into a personal slot machine—rigged so they always hit the jackpot. With nine construction firms under their control, they’ve cornered ₱30 billion worth of DPWH projects, most of them flood-control contracts that never seem to deliver. […]