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A Filipina in City Hall
By Cristina DC Pastor You can count in one hand the Filipinos who work at City Hall. Maria Rosana Cruz, 25, who is a project coordinator and a special assistant to the Commissioner on the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, is one of them. Maria came to MOIA more than two years ago through a […]
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Imelda Marcos’ L.I. estate for sale – yet again — for $5M
By Elton Lugay ‘The FilAm’ Exclusive For the third time, the 8.2-acre waterfront complex in Long Island that once belonged to former dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda is back in the market, according to the property agent. The estate has a 16-bedroom and 17-bathroom main house, a carriage house and a pool pavilion, […]
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What FilAms think of Paul Ryan
By Maricar CP Hampton Depends on where you are in the political aisle, Filipino Republicans believe Paul Ryan’s youth and energy will fire up the GOP presidential campaign, while the Democrats think he won’t make a difference at all. “I don’t think Mitt Romney’s VP choice will make a difference,” said retired USAF R Sonny […]
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Which came first: The chicken…or the politics?
It’s one of those restaurants I thought offered nothing special to the palate – like Denny’s or Popeye’s. Just the standard chicken and sugary drinks. Last Saturday, the husband and I decided to spend some time at Chick-fil-A hoping to catch some news with our fries. The closest to where we live was a modest […]
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Shame on the Church for obstructing RH bill
By Ludy A. Ongkeko, Ph.D. Has the position taken by President Aquino (P-Noy) on the Reproductive Health Bill (RH) No. 4244 morphed into the Church’s open war against him? Has the bill, which is awaiting further action in the august halls of the Philippine legislature, become a weapon of the Church against P-Noy? Flashback to […]
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Scenes from a hot SONA
Bayan USA held its own People’s SONA in front of the Philippine Consulate on Fifth Avenue on July 23 – the group’s response to President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino’s third State of the Nation Address delivered a day earlier, Manila time. While Aquino touted his economic accomplishments and the gains made by his anti-corruption campaign, Bayan […]
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How did our society produce a James Holmes?
By Tony Joaquin Not difficult really. It is a known fact throughout the shocked world that America has long been a growing war freak from the time they’ve been fighting the native American Indians and seizing their ancestral lands. Another factor is the Second Amendment in the United States Constitution. It is supposed to protect […]
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Remembering Maita Gomez’s political activism, cool humor and cooking
By Cristina DC Pastor “I screamed, I cried,” New York resident Indai Sajor recalled. She was inconsolable for days on hearing her good friend, women’s rights activist Maita Gomez, died July 12 in her sleep. Indai, a gender advisor for the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, met Maita in the 1980s. […]
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Congressman attempts the ‘tinikling’ at town hall meet
Nothing intimidates an American more than the ‘tinikling,’ or dancing with bare feet before a pair of click-clacking bamboo poles. Queens Congressman Joseph Crowley was brave enough to try — during a June 25 town hall meeting with his Filipino American constituency — but pragmatic enough to concede he was not going to get his […]