Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
As we all know, October is Breast Cancer
Awareness Month. In the past, it really didn’t matter much to me. I just knew
it was a month when folks wore pink ribbons and participated in some kind of a
run on Pennsylvania Avenue.
There were lots of TV commercials, radio announcements and news stories about
it. I was deluged with [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Those opposed argue that there is nothing
really wrong in the Constitution or the representative democracy that was
implanted here by the Americans in the early years of the last century. Their
spirited defense is that it is not something to be discarded quite so casually
by the proponents.
The debate has been bogged down on the
proposal for a shift [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Seven hundred thousand homes and seven
communities in all. Time line: Seven years. This is GK 777. This was the
original goal. By 2010, Gawad Kalinga must have attained its vision: a
slums-free Philippines.
Latest update. More than 850 GK villages
- 50 to 100 houses in each village - now rise in previous slum areas and
unoccupied land tracts all [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Teams from all over the Bowie
area and from across the Potomac including one from Oxon Hill and Fort Washington
which captured the title a few years back.
The league was first conceived when a
group of friends met regularly in local area lanes to engage in their favorite
pastime. The idea sprung up to formalize their association by organizing
a [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
* * * * *It is unfortunate that only a
minority of Filipino American voters are aware of what is at stake in this
election. As far as is known, there has been no organized campaign by either
the Filipino Republicans or Democrats to educate the Filipino American voters
on how exercise their right of suffrage, to give them [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
A former governor and a U.S. senator can
have no excuse to miss the word least if he does not know the meaning, he could
not have use it in public. The way the Senator said it with a sarcastic
footnote (“Welcome to America
and the real world of Virginia”)
only signifies an underlying meaning behind the word. Any hermeneutic
philosopher [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
As we adjust to the new temperature and
seasonal climate, we leave behind the stifling heat and the hustle bustle of
summer. This is autumn, my favorite season. The colorful sight and cool weather
touch my sensibilities. The night becomes longer which allows longer respose
and peace of mind. However, my husband sees things differently. He calls this
season leaf [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
The Toni Stabile Center is endowed by a
$5 million donation from Toni Stabile of Naples, Florida. An award-winning
investigative journalist in her own right, Stabile is also president of the
Vincent A. Stabile Foundation. The center, which opened its doors to students
on Aug. 21, will train students specializing in investigative journalism as
part of the school?s master of [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
House Republicans, fearing a voter
backlash, had opposed any approach that smacked of amnesty and chose instead to
focus on border security in advance of the elections, passing the fence bill
earlier this month.
With time running out, the Senate
acquiesced despite its bipartisan passage of a broader bill in May.
Congress also passed a separate $34.8
billion homeland security spending bill [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
In her acceptance speech, Kern emphasized
the need to refocus NaFFAA’s attention to issues affecting Filipinos here in America, and to highlight programs aimed at
getting them actively engaged in the U.S. political process, such as
voter education and civil rights advocacy. “I am keenly aware of perceptions
that we have paid more attention to Philippine issues like dual [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
The ruling by a vote of 3 to 2 (the three
appointed by President Bush and the two dissenters by President Clinton), was
hailed by businesses and roundly criticized by labor unions and other
activists.
The Asian Pacific American Labor
Alliance, AFL-CIO (APALA) condemned the decision to expand the definition of a
supervisor and strip millions of workers of the right [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Ms. Collins said Judge Leavitt held a
status hearing of Ang’s case last Monday, Oct. 2, and continued to Thursday,
Oct. 5, at 2 p.m. But at a “telephonic conference,” Judge Leavitt “stayed the
condition of Ang’s release (house arrest)” and set the status hearing on Nov.
1.
The 46-year-old Filipino-Chinese
businessman originally asked for a ten-day extension of his surrender [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
The confirmation of the diplomats came
after Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago, chairwoman of the CA foreign affairs
committee, recommended their confirmation following committee hearings aimed at
determining their fitness and integrity to hold such offices.
Confirmed as ambassadors were Willy C.
Gaa as chief of mission, class I and as Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary to the United States; Maria Rosario L. [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Fernando R. Lerma who had just moved here
after years of work for Exxon in Guam said in
an open letter that his son who participated and won a $500-prize in the Rizal
Day singing contest was “shortchanged by this association.” He was referring to
the Philippine Festival Committee co-chaired by Drs. Victor and Bambi Lorica,
which was in charge [...]