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Mayor Adams orders crackdown to halt the continuing decay of Roosevelt Avenue
By Cristina DC Pastor Community leader Flo Coronel has seen them all on Roosevelt Avenue: bellowing, beer-drinking men; pushcart vendors crowding the sidewalks; and scarcely dressed women soliciting massages which could be a prelude to prostitution. As recently as two weeks ago, Coronel, a resident of Woodside for more than 23 years, said he witnessed […]
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Steven Raga is elected Official of the Year in NYS Assembly
By Loida Nicolas Lewis Queens County Young Democrats named Assemblyman Steven Raga on his first year as Elected Official of the Year in 2023! He has been a whirlwind of a legislator during his first two-year term. Being the first Filipino American elected to the New York State Assembly in November 2022, he was able […]
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Maria Torres-Springer is named First Deputy Mayor of NYC reporting to Adams
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced that Deputy Mayor for Housing, Economic Development, and Workforce Maria Torres-Springer will be elevated to the position of first deputy mayor. Torres-Springer will assume oversight of the first deputy mayor portfolio and provide strategic direction and operational and budgetary oversight for the City of New York. She […]
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FilAms voice dismay toward Vilma Santos’s, sons’ candidacies
By Cristina DC Pastor Behind the reels showing the multi-awarded actress dancing cheerfully on TikTok, the Santos-Recto family of Batangas has been plotting to command power and form a political dynasty. The veteran actress Vilma Santos has recently filed her Certificate of Candidacy (COC) to reclaim her former seat as governor of Batangas. In a […]
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Officer who battled IS, Abu Sayyaf militants to receive West Point valor award
Maj. Floren Herrera of the Class of 2013, will receive the 2024 Alexander R. Nininger Award for Valor at Arms, which will be presented at West Point, New York on October 10, 2024. The award is presented to a graduate who has demonstrated valor on the field of battle. The announcement was made by the West Point […]
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Extradite Quiboloy
By Cristina DC Pastor Now that Apollo Quiboloy is in custody, the public is weighing how Justice will be served – and where. Will the celebrity pastor, who ordained himself the “Son of God,” face accountability in the United States where he allegedly trafficked women and molested young girls, and engaged in bulk cash smuggling, […]
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Courting the AAPI Independents
By Sunita Sohrabji The large, largely untapped bloc of Asian American Independent voters could deliver the win to Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris or her opponent, Republican Donald Trump in an extremely tight race. The New York Times/Siena College poll, released one day ahead of the September 10 debate, showed Trump leading Harris by 1 […]
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How Rodrigo Duterte brought the Philippines to its ‘twilight zone’
By Allen Gaborro In the post-EDSA I political and social milieu, it was hardly surprising that millions of Filipinos embraced former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s highly controversial stratagems and actions, or what political scientist, media personality, and academic intellectual Richard Javad Heydarian refers to in his expository book, “The Rise of Duterte: A Populist Revolt […]
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Opinion: It’s time to stop underestimating a woman’s competency for the presidency
By Loida Lewis Americans of every race and every state, Black, White, Asian American, even Jamaicans in Jamaica and anti-Trump Republicans were energized when Kamala Harris stepped before the cameras to declare her candidacy for the presidency of the United States in advance of this week’s Democratic National Convention. Within days, some $300 million was […]