Even NIRC brass conceded that our video is disturbing. But instead of acknowledging the scale of problems and pledging to correct them, its officials chose to excuse some of the images as easily misread by non-scientists and they indicated that much of what viewers saw on ABC was standard practice throughout the industry. ...
At the end of day, when you get beyond the rationalizations, NIRC may be right in one respect — that much of what is depicted is standard industry practice. If that turns out to be the case, then it’s an indictment of the industry as a whole, and NIRC is not absolved. It’s time for reform.
We've just released other investigative scenes, below, which augment the case that the incidents broadcast on ABC were neither isolated nor easily excused.
Pacelle then includes three more video clips in his post from the HSUS' investigation.
In rendering his ruling, District Judge John Trahan all but called the real estate developer a liar for inconsistencies in his accounts of what prompted him to punch a school teacher unconscious.
Frank’s Casing Crew, now doing business as Frank’s International, will make its final appearance on ABiz’s list of the Top 50 Privately Held Companies in Acadiana this year, and once again it will likely be at the top with more than $1 billion in annual revenues. The 75-year-old company specializing in tubular fabrication and installation services to the oil and gas industry plans to offer shares of its stock to the public for the first time.
The defeat, or rather highjacking of House Bill 420 in the final days of this year's Legislative Session, say Reps. Vincent Pierre and Terry Landry, is the result of the propaganda spread by one unidentified local media outlet and an unnamed former state Representative, but nothing to do with the original legislation's lack of checks, balances or details.
City-Parish Council Chairman Brandon Shelvin heaped steady doses of condescending ire on a Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana executive while failing to reveal his financial ties to a BC/BS rival.
Abbeville native David Primeaux was a popular professor until his death late last year, and while he was successful at camouflaging a dark past, he couldn’t outlive it.
Tehmi Chassion’s failure to recuse himself in the school board’s selection of a group health benefits provider raises ‘serious questions’ on whether he violated state ethics law.
He’s a singer. A songwriter. A piano man. A family man. He’s even got his own Wikipedia entry. He’s David Egan. And he knows ancient secrets about the monolithic stones of Stonehenge that he’s not willing to share.