VIA Times – September 2020 Issue Vital News, Vibrant VIews for Asian Americans in Chicago & Midwest

By: Elsie Sy-Niebar   *A BRIEF PERSONAL INTRO OF CANDIDATES FOR USA PRESIDENT, REPUBLICAN DONALD TRUMP and His VP, MIKE PENCE; DEMOCRAT FOR PRESIDENT, JOE BIDEN and His VP KAMALA HARRIS *Our AMERICAN SCENE: the PRESS BIASES towards President DONALD TRUMP is WINning him a new ...

By: Doni Nguyen   The Social Security Administration announced a new service for people awaiting a hearing decision. In addition to telephone hearings, Social Security will offer the opportunity for an online video hearing using the Microsoft Teams platform beginning ...

By: Jan Paul C. Ferrer   When the market is volatile, almost everyone thinks about their fi – nancial future and the potential impact such fl uctuations may have on their retirement accounts. However, it is during these turbulent times that ...

CHICAGO – Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) announced today that the state has received $36.7 million in federal funding to fight the opioid crisis. Funding expands prevention, treatment, recovery and overdose response initiatives across ...

By: Bob Boyer   Writers are expected to update their bios periodically, and I have recently done that. When I fi nished and reviewed the update, I was pleasantly reminded of how important my Philippines connection has become. That connection ...

By: Janice Dantes   The world stopped with the arrival of COVID-19. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has lead to many deaths in our community. Most recently, I am in the process of opening a probate estate for a man in his twenties ...

American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) President and CEO Dirk Kempthorne issued the following remarks in recognition of Life Insurance Awareness Month: WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — “People purchase life insurance with the hope that their families will never need the ...

Yiorgos Zervas, Outreach Representative Cook County Treasurer’s (Maria Pappas) Office

Well-loved and award-winning public service program Wish Ko Lang! celebrates women’s strength and winning moments in life this September with a series of four fresh episodes bannered by some of the country’s top-notch actresses: Glydel Mercado, Rochelle Pangilinan, Arra San ...

By: Nancy Abiera   In this time of global crisis, it is so easy to be trapped in the pit of SADNESS (Stress, Anger/Anxiety, Disappointment/Depression, Negativity, Envy, Sorrow and Soul-Searching). Many have lost the inner peace and joy while some ...