By Mariano A. Santos PINOY Editor/Publisher Ambassador Leo Herrera-Lim, 47, sat down with PINOY staffers on May 17 to share his thoughts about his new post in Chicago. Ambassador Lim is born in Zamboanga City and is married to Fidelis Carino. They have two children, Leonardo Ignitius and Frances Leanne. His previous assignments include...
By Mariano Santos, PINOY Publisher/Editor How things can change in a year. Nobody could have surmised that a fourth generation Aquino would be again crossing the threshold of the Philippine Presidency. I just finished reading the book of National Artist Nick Joaquin. “The Aquinos of Tarlac.” It was written during the Marcos Years; thus,...
By Mariano Santos, PINOY Publisher/Editor A polite guest avoids religion and politics in his conversation, so it has been said. Either topic inevitably leads to a rancorous argument. Combined, it can be, indeed, toxic. But back home, mixing faith and politics is lucrative for many cults that morphed into semi-state religion. Founders of these...
Editorial On April 1st, there are barely 40 days left until the Filipino voters go to the polls to elect their leaders from the president down to the barangay officials. Holy Week falls on the first week of April this year. The Philippines being a Christian nation, 40 days is significant. Prophet Moses and...
By Mariano Santos, PINOY Publisher/Editor After the disappointing voters turnout in Chicago during the February primary elections when only 25 percent of the registered voters cast their ballots, a question was fielded to this writer about voters turnout in elections back home. I answered , “ Hmm, about 105 percent.” (Laughter) It has been...
By Mariano Santos, PINOY Publisher/Editor PINOY mission statement on the editorial page of our premier edition in Feruary 2000 is reprinted on page 5. It is the basis of our evaluation of what this publication has contributed to the Filipino American community in this part of the United States. PINOY has done a pretty...
By Mariano Santos, PINOY Publisher/Editor Trite as it may sound, first the good news. The fear of a global economic depression did not materialized. TIME magazine’s story on its 2009 Person of the Year put the tattered state of the economy that pretty much in perspective. The shy nerd in-charged of the US Federal...
By Mariano Santos, PINOY Publisher/Editor Surely you’ve already noticed the yuletide tradition brought in by Filipino immigrants to the US has caught on in a big way. Thirty years ago fewer than a dozen churches in the area went along with their Filipino American parishioners in observing this novena introduced by the Spaniards in...
Just like Monday quarterbacking, both the smart and the stupid have some solutions and opinions about the result of the previous day. Come Tuesday, the common human malady sets in. All is almost forgotten. Like the many ball games lost in the past, the many typhoons and other natural disasters that visited the Philippines...
By Mariano Santos, PINOY Publisher/Editor Just when we thought that we were all set to go to press, we were compelled by important news development to go back to our press room and redo what we already finished for this October edition. We have to do a complete makeover of our cover, editorial page...
