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TRUMP WINS BIG; LEAVES HARRIS IN THE DUST

©2024 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) REPUBLICAN PARTY EMERGED STRONGER AS IT FLIPS THE SENATE AND KEEPS THE HOUSE PER FOX NEWS FORMER PRESIDENT Donald Trump handily won the U.S. presidency in last Tuesday’s elections, becoming the second U.S. president to serve non-cons...

JGL Eye: MY KAMANDER-IN-CHIEF WILL CHANGE AMERICA

©2024 By JOSEPH G LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) GO OUT AND VOTE! CHICAGO (PM) – If Kamala Harris wins Tuesday’s elections, it will be a culmination of 143 years of struggle of women’s movement for the right to vote. It was in 1777 when all states passed laws that take away wom...

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 ...