VIA Times – February 2015 Issue Vital News, Vibrant VIews for Asian Americans in Chicago & Midwest

By: Elsie Sy-Niebar   *Four against incumbent Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Feb. 24! *Rahm Emanuel, ‘Mayor for the Elite?’ Who gifted him his $30M political war chest? *Goodbye to Kababayans Aster Bhandari and Joe Sarmiento… *Year 2015 is the ...

“Sharing this beautiful day of Love makes our love seem even more beautiful… and the special magic between us makes Valentine’s Day more magical than ever. Happy Valentine’s Day!” Luv yah, always — going on 26 years! Wowowee! = Elsie, ...

By: Mayra Salazar   If you’re like most people, you protect what’s valuable to you. To protect your family financially, you buy health and life insurance. To protect your home, you get homeowner’s insurance, a security alarm, or perhaps a ...

DR. ALLAN ADAJAR, OB, GYN who developed “Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery”

By: Victoria G. Smith   Love is indivisible, gentle, forgiving, always giving. Like the magnanimous sea, it is immutable, incapable of dilution, although it branches off into different rivers. Love is omnipresent— able to be present to everyone it blesses, ...

By: Robert Gard   Two key pieces (expanded “DACA” without age limits and “DAPA”) of President Obama’s Executive Actions Program, announced on November 20, 2014, are scheduled to go into effect on February 18th and May 26th of this year, ...

By: Veronica Leighton   February, the second and shortest month of the year, possesses the month with the love and heart, the reason of which the lovers’ occasion, Valentine’s Day, is being celebrated on this month. Here’s a short Funny ...

By: Bob Boyer   Last January 20, I gave a talk on the Philippines to a classroom filled with about fifty people. They were participants in the LIR (Learning in Retirement) Program at the UW-Green Bay. I followed my usual ...

By: Mark Javier   Chicago municipal elections are once again in full swing, and there is a full menu of candidates running for city office. Each election season, I ponder about the Filipino community’s level of political engagement and whether ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Christian and Missionary Alliance (The Alliance) churches and personnel are responding with urgency to the deepening humanitarian crisis in the Middle East. Winter’s bitter temperatures have increased the misery of millions displaced by the ongoing Syrian ...