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Joel Bander is enjoying twin careers in litigation and advocacy journalism

Joel Bander is enjoying twin careers in litigation and advocacy journalism

Attorney Joel Bander greets someone at an event. He humbly introduces himself as “Joel” without any fanfare of being an attorney or his association with this newspaper. And now, working…

Lecaros Still Misrepresents His Chamber Relations Despite Leaving Under a Cloud

Lecaros Still Misrepresents His Chamber Relations Despite Leaving Under a Cloud

By Joel Bander, Senior Columnist Adrian Lecaros, who recently lost his bid for a California Assemblyman position in the 46th district, has continued to misrepresent his terminated membership with the…

Echo Park Library To Launch The Philippine Heritage Collection

Los Angeles, Oct. 11, 2012 — October has been designated as Filipino American History Month. In celebration of this event, the Echo Park Community Group (EPCoG) in collaboration with the…

Election Fever is Here; Send in the Clowns

Election Fever is Here; Send in the Clowns

After the deadline of candidates’ registration set by the Commission on Election in the Philippines, Filipinos back home were not surprised to see the same usual smorgasbord of candidates that…

End of a remarkable space saga

End of a remarkable space saga

Words and photos by Dionesio C Grava In mid-September the space shuttle Endeavour piggybacked on a specially modified 747 jet as it left the Kennedy Space Center on a cross-country…

Batangas Rep. Mandanas in LA for OAV, dual citizenship talks

Batangas Rep. Mandanas in LA for OAV, dual citizenship talks

Words and photo by Dionesio C. Grava First the good news: There has been a steep climb in the number of registrants for Overseas Absentee Voting (OAV) within the jurisdictional area of…

Filipino Americans celebrate 425 years of history

Filipino Americans celebrate 425 years of history

By Nimfa U. Rueda  LOS ANGELES – Most Americans know that on Oct. 12, 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus landed in the West Indies, marking what history books describe as…

PinoyWatchDog.com names Robbie Fabian of ABS-CBN Foundation the first ‘Dog of the Year’ Award recipient

PinoyWatchDog.com names Robbie Fabian of ABS-CBN  Foundation the first ‘Dog of the Year’ Award recipient

LOS ANGELES—PinoyWatchDog.com has named Robbie Fabian of ABS-CBN Foundation International as the first ‘Dog of the Year’ winner for exemplary acts of courage, integrity and transparency as a civic leader,…