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JGL Eye: MONSTER-IN-CHIEF

©2024 By JOSEPH G LARIOSA           (PhilaMessenger.net) IF TRUMP LETS HIS DISABLED GRANDNEPHEW DIE AWAY, WHAT WILL IT TELL THE 56-M DISABLED VETERANS? CHICAGO (PM) – FORMER President Donald Trump has offered a chilling solution to his nephew’s problem to cut down costs for the long-term disa...

FORMER FACC PRESIDENT DIES AT 89

©2024 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA               (PhilaMessenger.net)  TO BE LAID TO REST TUESDAY, OCT. 15, AFTER 10 A.M. MASS CHICAGO (PM) – Atty. Alfonso S. Bascos, former three-term president of the Filipino American Council of Chicago (FACC), will be laid to rest on Tuesday, Oct. 15, ...

ENRILE, OTHERS ACQUITTED OF PLUNDER

THEY STILL FACE 15 COUNTS OF GRAFT CASES MANILA (PM) -- FORMER Philippine Senate President and current Chief Presidential Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile and several others were acquitted Friday (Oct. 4) of plunder before the anti-graft intermediate court Sandiganbayan, according to news reports from ...

PINOY ARTISTS DID NOT WIN IN ARTPRIZE; TO TRY AGAIN NEXT YEAR

  CHICAGO (PM) – Filipinos Mariano “Anoy” Catague of Davao City and Rodelio “Waway” Saway of Bukidnon did not bring home the bacon from the 2024 ArtPrize in Grand Rapids last Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, but promised to be back next year, according to their supporter, Mabel Guia Acosta, founder of Qu...

AT HALFTIME, PINOY’S ENTRY MAKES IT TO TOP 100 OF ARTPRIZE 2024!

©2024 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA                 (PhilaMessenger.net)  CHICAGO (PM) – The intricate mixed-media 2D art entry, POLL, which expresses disgust over excessive politics and forgotten political promises by Mariano “Anoy” Catague from Davao City, was among the top 100 pieces chosen by the p...

OUR LADY OF PENAFRANCIA ATTRACTS MORE DEVOTEES

©2024 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA                    (PhilaMessenger.net) CHICAGO (PM) – Some 45 new members joined the Confraternity of Our Lady of Penafrancia (COLP) during the Penafrancia Fiesta last September 21, 2024, the culmination of the nine-day novena prior to the last eight days, assuring ...

MINDANAO ARTISTS VIE FOR $125K ARTPRIZE 2024 AWARDS

©2024 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA                 (PhilaMessenger.net)   CHICAGO (PM) – The ArtPrize 2024 in Grand Rapids, Michigan will return next week where visitors and a jury of art experts are going to choose the best artworks that could award the winner the $125,000 Grand Prize.  Contestant...

US SENATORS HAIL DE LIMA’S ACQUITTAL

By Joseph G. Lariosa      PhilaMessenger.net WASHINGTON, D.C. (PM) - SENATOR EDWARD J. Markey (D-Mass.), Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) today released the following statement regarding Philippine Senator Leila de Lima, who was cleared of the third an...