The fourth quarter is here and if you haven’t started planning for success in 2013 yet, there’s no time like the present. A good plan starts with good intel and that is exactly what ABiz will deliver on Thursday, Oct. 11, at the annual Entrée to Business event featuring Dr. Loren Scott. The event takes place 7:30 a.m. in the Cajundome Convention Center.
The popular LSU professor emeritus of economics will offer up his 2013 Louisiana Economic Outlook with special emphasis on Acadiana, and early signs are a bullish report for our region. MidSouth Bank and Dwight Andrus Insurance are presenting sponsors for the event. The Acadiana Economic Development Council and Cane River Pecans are supporting sponsors and Vidox Motion Imagery is the digital media partner.
You can find details at acadianabusiness.com or by contacting Robin Hebert via email at
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or by phone: (337) 769-8603.
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.
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