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Asian communities irked over mayoral candidates’ snub
Christine Quinn was a no-show. So were Bill Thompson and John Catsimatidis. Sal Albanese, Bill de Blasio, and Erick Salgado were at the forum, and so was John Liu, but he came 30 minutes late. Welcome to the Mayoral Candidates Forum organized by a coalition of about 50 Asian American organizations where the empty seats […]
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Manglapus, Gillego and the struggles from exile of a N.Y.-born anti-Marcos movement
Fighting from a Distance: How Filipino Exiles Helped Topple a Dictator By Jose V. Fuentecilla University of Illinois Press 2013 By Cristina DC Pastor It is a book that triggers memories – some good and some not so bracing. That is how the book “Fighting from a Distance: How Filipino Exiles helped Topple a Dictator” […]
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Official poll results are out; second-generation FilAms amused, indifferent, hopeful
Administration candidate Francis Escudero topped the Senate race in the U.S. with 9,464 votes followed by: Alan Peter Cayetano, 9,174 Grace Poe, 9,029 Loren Legarda, 8,696 Aquilino Pimentel III 8,448 Bam Aquino, 8,267 Juan Edgardo Angara, 7,735 Richard Gordon, 7,291 Ramon Magsaysay Jr., 7,187 Riza Hontiveros, 6,983 Antonio Trillanes, 6,521 Juan Miguel Zubiri, 4,908 Ten […]
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What I did on election day
By Paulynn P. Sicam I voted early, with no hassles. The polling place is a public school five minutes’ walk from my house. I was back home in 20 minutes. On my way home, I met my ‘kasambahay’ and her husband who were going to cast their own votes. When they got back after over […]
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Let’s help the Philippines choose better leaders through education
By Bing Branigin Really? After 1986, I thought the Philippines and the Filipino people really wanted a “democratic” country. Now 2013, the Filipinos elected their senators, congressmen, governors, mayors, etc. with an outcome that seems insulting to some of us here in the U.S., even if majority of Filipinos think otherwise. There’s one person everyone […]
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New York counts the votes; final tally in 13 hours
By Cristina DC Pastor Not a lot of people in this voting location as election inspectors opened ballot boxes and inspected ballots for possible tampering. Just a couple of curious women dressed in office suits and three journalists. No campaign fliers littered the floors, and no argumentative poll watchers were present. Definitely no partisan jousting. […]
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Health insurance exchange seen to lower premiums for 2.6 M uninsured New Yorkers
By Cristina DC Pastor Chona V., a nanny, has been coughing a lot lately her employers decided to send her to their doctor. She was diagnosed as having a mild case of allergy and told to take three days off to rest. Her employers picked up the tab of $175, but it was not a […]
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Ed Santos is first FilAm to aspire for NYC council seat
By Cristina DC Pastor For the first time in the history of Filipino migration to New York, the son of a nanny is aspiring to run for a city council seat. Twenty-seven-year-old Democrat Edward Santos is looking to represent District 8 of East Harlem-South Bronx in the city council. But first, he has to win […]
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Across the Korean Peninsula, unease in the morning calm
By Joel David News about the latest saber-rattling from the pseudo-socialist feudal monarchy of North Korea still has the capacity to upset folks back home in the Philippines, despite the fact that South Korea happens to be, after Mongolia, the farthest East Asian country from the archipelago. Our connection with the peninsula goes deeper than […]