LOS ANGELES – Nearly a half-million Californians–200,000 in Los Angeles County–are experiencing changes in their health insurance status through the state’s new Cal MediConnect. The pilot program is being tested…
LOS ANGELES — A proposed statewide law which seeks to provide health care coverage for California’s remaining uninsured could create new fees on remittances and driver’s license applications as a…
LOS ANGELES – Good news for frequent flyers. Getting to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) may have just become easier with the arrival of a new bus line that will…
Immigration reform is on the horizon. We can feel it in the air. Change is coming. President Obama may or may not pull through for the thousands of undocumented residents…
Clients, husband and wife are 60 years old and both professionals in the medical field. Their combined gross income is about $200,000 annually. Their children are all adults and no…
Generally in California, property acquired by a spouse prior to marriage is considered under the family code as separate property while those acquired after marriage are considered community assets. What…
The death of Steven Sotloff, the recent American journalist who was shown being beheaded in a video released Tuesday by Islamic militant terrorist group ISIS, has left a family in…
THE healthy enamel that covers your teeth is the hardest substance in your body — it’s even harder than your bones! That’s great news when you consider the amount of…
Filipinos are well-aware that it takes years and years to bring family members to US through some family-based petitions. A petition by a brother or sister could take up to…
We are surrounded by hundreds of products that are deleterious to our health, including foods, beverages, aerosols, and chemicals for our kitchen and bathrooms, that are toxic to our body….
OUR hearts are heavy because the Philippine showbiz industry has lost a great artist and person, Mark Gil. The actor passed away at 8am last Monday, September 1. He was…
LOS ANGELES — A driver was badly injured after his car collided with Metrolink train No. 220 on Tuesday afternoon in Burbank, according to local police. The driver, 79-year-old Fawaz Khalil…
LOS ANGELES — A driver was badly injured after his car collided with Metrolink train No. 220 on Tuesday afternoon in Burbank, according to local police. The driver, 79-year-old Fawaz Khalil…
A FIL-AM teenager from New Jersey who managed to slip through the security of the World Trade Center in New York, was sentenced last September 3. Sixteen-year-old Justin Casquejo was…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The international group Doctors Without Borders warned Tuesday that the world is losing the battle against Ebola and lamented that treatment centers in West Africa have…
For Filipinos, Christmas is just around the corner. Yes, you heard it right; and yes, they know that there are still numerous special occasions that come ahead of Christmas. However,…
California is a signature away from implementing prohibition to single-use plastic bags, after the Senate passed Senate Bill 270 on a vote of 22-15 last Friday, Aug. 29. The measure…
IT is business as usual for the second most powerful man in the country. While the controversy about the alleged overpriced Makati City Hall Building II heats up, Vice President…
WE Filipinos are known to be frugal — many of us will do what it takes to save money in our purchases. Unfortunately, one of the ways many of our…
Adopted children may obtain immigration benefits in three different ways. First, under INA 101(b)(1)(E)(i), a US citizen (USC) or lawful permanent resident (LPR) may file an immigrant petition for a…
California is a signature away from implementing prohibition to single-use plastic bags, after the Senate passed Senate Bill 270 on a vote of 22-15 last Friday, Aug. 29. The measure…
Some love or hate it, others write or repeat it. But the obsession with gossip seems here to stay. From what we read and see, from the unholy and unchanging…
AN immigration rights protest rally in front of the White House went sour after U.S. Park Police arrested nearly 150 people; among them immigrants, labor and religious leaders, elected officials,…
LOS ANGELES – Mayor Eric Garcetti formally introduced his plan to boost the city’s minimum wage to $13.25 an hour by 2017. In his remarks at a Labor Day rally…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new outdoor music festival in downtown Los Angeles reflected the city’s diversity with a lineup that included rap, rock, punk, blues and Latin music. Kanye…
Supporters Hail Victory for Bipartisanship, Economy and California Taxpayers San Diego – Last Friday, after hearing arguments from both sides in the lawsuit aimed at blocking California’s new Prevailing Wage…
IT’S not easy to become a priest. Although I know this first-hand, it became clearer to me this week while listening to seminarians share their struggles of priestly formation. One…
ON August 19, former president Fidel Ramos revealed in ANC’s Beyond Politics that there have been intelligence reports concerning the training of about 100 Filipino Muslims in Iraq to become…
ELECTED Congressman of Saranggani. Boxer in training for his next fight. PBA Coach. Entertainer. Husband and father. And now—Manny Pacquiao will be training professional boxers in China. Yes. The same…
Confusing the enemy is an established tactic in warfare. Sun Tsu’s Art of War and Nicolo Machiavelli’s The Prince mentioned this as one effective means of making the enemy off-balance…
