VIA Times – March 2016 Issue Vital News, Vibrant VIews for Asian Americans in Chicago & Midwest

By: Elsie Sy-Niebar   *EXPLETIVES, name-calling, mudslinging, explode on national television from the mouths of 2016 America’s presidential candidates! *Donald Trump’s presidential slogan, “This Country will be great again’ was the very same slogan used by the late President Marcos during ...

By: Joe Mauricio   In American politics, “dynasty’ is a dirty word. The Founding Fathers, after all, went on record as wholeheartedly objecting to power flowing through blood rather than ballot declaring in the U.S. Constitution that no title of ...

By: Lena Remigio   Dear Ate Lena, Tulungan mo ako at masyadong naguguluhan ang aking isip sa aking current life situation. Ako ay 59 anyos at ang aking bagong asawa ng isang taon pa lamang ay 55 years old, pareho ...

When VIA Times’ editors Veronica Leighton and Joe Mauricio went to Des Moines, Iowa in the spring of 2011to cover that year’s CelebrAsian Festival of which the Filipino American community was an active participant, they hardly expected they’d discover an ...

Successful entrepreneur from Frankfort, Bryan Nooner, CEO and Founder, built a successful, national brand that keeps home safe. Nooner developed his products to protect outdoor cord connections from rain and melting snow. Twist and Seal’s family of products, Mini, Cord ...

A few weeks before the start of the Overseas Voting for the Philippine national elections and amid the ongoing primaries for the next general elections in the U.S., Consul General Generoso D.G. Calonge called on the Filipino American community in ...

Police Accountability Task Force “We are thankful to the Chicago community for participating in our process to gather input about the kinds of reforms that are necessary for the Chicago Police Department in order to restore trust between police and the ...

Not even the Tooth Fairy is spared from the effects of Wall Street tumult. For the second consecutive year the Tooth Fairy has left Illinois children with an average amount per tooth that’s below the national average. According to The ...

Esther Hanviriyapunt neé Buenconsejo, a.k.a. ESTER HANA, pianist, cabaret/jazz singer, plays an all-classical piano program. She is known for solo work in a wide variety of piano styles, incorporating serious music with theatre, popular and international (foreign-languages) music. This is ...

Online Registration Opens for Mayor’s One Summer Chicago Program to Keep Chicago’s Youth Engaged this Summer with Job and Internship Opportunities Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that his One Summer Chicago program will expand to provide 25,000 job and internship opportunities ...