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AQUINO & KIKO LEAD DUTERTE’S PDP-LABAN 6 BETS IN MIDWEST; NOT ONE OF BBM’S COALITION MEMBER MADE THE “MAGIC 12”

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) 5 DUTERTE YOUTH WITH 165/19.41% VOTES; 51 AKBAYAN WITH 108/12.71% VOTES LEAD PARTY-LIST VOTING! CHICAGO (PM) – COMEBACKING Senators Bam Aquino (KNP) (No. 1) and Kiko Pangilinan (LP) (No. 2) led the 12 winning sena...

DELAY IN TRANSMITTING ER’s NOT CAUSED BY PRINTER’S BREAKDOWN!

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA AND MANNY ZAMBRANO (Philamessenger.net) LESS THAN 5% OF CLOSE TO 20,000 REGISTERED VOTERS VOTED IN CHICAGO PRECINCTS CONSUL CLARIFIES CONTROVERSY CHICAGO (PM) – THERE is no printing problem that caused the delay in transmitting the election returns (ER’s...

The Straphanger: LEGAL & REWARD FUNDS FOR SLAIN JOURNALISTS

©2025 By Bobby M. Reyes (PhilaMessenger.net) Steps Needed to Protect the Filipino Fourth Estate Part III of "Protecting Filipinoo Journalists" Series LOS ANGELES (PM) --We shall discuss today how the Filipino Fourth Estate can be more protected from harm. Journalis...

FIRST OVERSEAS INTERNET VOTING STARTS!

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) PHILIPPINE CONSULATE IN CHICAGO TO HOLD TOWN HALL MEETING FOR MASS ENROLLMENT TODAY; 1.2-M OVERSEAS PINOYS QUALIFIED TO VOTE! CHICAGO (PM) – The Philippine Commission on Elections (Comelec) without fanfare announced over t...

BUSAM EVENT VENUE MOVED FROM SEAFOOD CITY TO RIZAL CENTER SATURDAY, APRIL 5TH

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) CHICAGO (PM) – THE post-Valentine fund-raising event of the Bikol U.S.A. of the Midwest (BUSAM) was moved from Seafood City last Feb. 15, 2025 to Rizal Center at 1332 W. Irving Park Road in Chicago’s on Saturday, April 5, 2025 from 3...

FORMER DHS ASYLUM OFFICER OPENS PRIVATE PRACTICE IN CHICAGO

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) YOUNG LAWYER POSTED OWN BUSINESS CARD ON PM CHICAGO (PM) – A young Filipino American California lawyer who worked as an asylum officer at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) left the federal agency that administers...

NEW CONGEN, FIL AM ALDERMAN, SOS GIANNOULIAS INVITED AT BUSAM EVENT ON APRIL 5

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) CHICAGO (PM) – New Consul General Atty. Melanie Rita B. Diano of the Philippine Consulate in Chicago, Illinois, Filipino American Chicago 48th Ward Alderwoman Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth (pronounced “LEH-nee ma-NAH HAH-puhn-wurth”...

FIL AM TAX PREPARER APPEALS 16-MONTH SENTENCE FOR PREPARING AND FILING FALSE TAX RETURNS

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) CHEATED IRS $4.5-M CHICAGO (PM) – Filipino American tax preparer Gary Sandiego of Barrington, Illinois filed an appeal before starting to serve out his 16-month federal prison sentence last Feb. 10, 2025 for each of the two c...