Covering the week’s most noteworthy feature stories impacting the Filipino-American and Global Filipino community.
By Sen. Kamala Harris and Assemblymember Rob Bonta We are in a crisis — one that requires unifying leadership. But that’s not what we are getting from the president of…
WHAT should America do when Donald Trump, the president of the United States, undermines and violates the guidelines of the very health agencies and regulators of the American government especially…
My wife and I have been attending Holy Mass on our laptop for more than two months now because of the coronavirus pandemic. Both of us being in our 80s,…
WHAT should Americans do when the very leader of our nation goes against the facts, scientific studies, and the advice of health officials as the nation and the world continue…
SCARED to go back to work in fear of being infected by the deadly COVID-19? This is what is happening now in the White House after two people working close…
ABS-CBN signed off after its franchise expired on May 4, 2020. Actually, the franchise was left to expire by the Philippine House of Representatives that preferred to second-guess President Rodrigo…
DURA LEX, SED LEX. “The law is harsh, but it is the law” and should, therefore, be executed and followed. I have heard this principle more than a thousand times…
THERE is a saying, “If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” In other words, you try to make the best out of what fate has given you. Jessica Cox, a…
IN THE TIME when the global community is attacked by the coronavirus pandemic — an invisible enemy that has killed more than 251,580 people and infected over 3,584,174 — we…
WHAT is happening in Michigan is a microcosm of what is happening in our country, and perhaps, around the world, in this global war against the coronavirus pandemic. As of…
HOW long will the coronavirus pandemic continue to scourge the world? We can only guess, based on empirical experience. Did God say how long the world would remain flooded and…
THE coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 213,824 people in the world, and has changed life as we knew it before its spread was initially reported in January 2020. In…
AMID the debate about continuing social distancing or re-opening the United States for business Amid the President of the United States Donald Trump undermining the advice of scientists and health…
By Elisa Tong, MD, MS, Associate professor of internal medicine, University of California, Davis DOCTORS like me and many other health professionals are working to treat sick patients for the…
In his book, “The Greatest Generation,” journalist Tom Brokaw extolled those born in the 1900s and up to the 1920s, relating how they survived the Great Depression, fought and won…
By Evelyn Rafael Seeing the insensitive article recently published by the Las Vegas Review-Journal took me back to my childhood and watching my mother struggle to feed our family of…
Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) doctors, nurses, and health care workers alike are now at the front line against the deadly COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The rapidly growing…
WE are in a war against the coronavirus infection. After bragging he is a “wartime president,” we would think President Donald Trump would finally unite the country in leading us…
ENOUGH! President Donald Trump has been abusing the daily coronavirus briefings, which are paid for using taxpayers’ money in lieu of his campaign rallies he laments he cannot hold because…
TOTAL AUTHORITY is what President Donald Trump now claims in relaxing the social distancing and other safety measures in place and in pushing to reopen the United States for business…
FOR us Catholic Christians, Easter means the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after His agony and death in the cross — the fulfillment of the prophecy…
Hopefully, none of our readers is positive for COVID-19. Nonetheless, I suggest that each one of us should think positively — meaning, we should consider ourselves positive for the disease….
SEMANA SANTA. For the first time in my lifetime, my family will not be able to go to church for the mass of the palaspas, stations of the cross, washing…
Several years ago, I produced a special TV report on the topic, “What would happen if Filipino health care professionals in the U.S. do not report for work?” The point…
THE WAR against the coronavirus pandemic that has caught the world by surprise in January has made us all feel like the normal, free, and vibrant life we lived just…
Experts warn of death toll could go up to 100,000-200,000 THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic the world is now fighting against is personal to me. My husband is a surgeon and is…
LET us face the reality of our situation: the pace and quality of our lives now and in the foreseeable future will be dictated by the coronavirus disease 2019 or…
POPE FRANCIS, on Friday evening, March 27, shared his meditation on the calming of the storm from the Gospel of Mark during the prayer service on the steps of St…
THE coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is just one more crisis, among the many, that the world has experienced in the 20th century and the present millennium. Each crisis has been a test…
It’s difficult to look for any silver lining in the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, which continues to claim lives around the planet. Environmental advocates, however, cite an obvious consequence of…
