Six veterans’ groups are demanding the Department of Veterans Affairs improve the quality of care at its nursing homes following a story by USA TODAY and The Boston Globe detailing “blatant disregard for veteran safety” at a VA nursing home in Massachusetts. Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, Paralyzed Veterans of America and Vietnam Veterans

  By: Kyle Stock, Source: Bloomberg, Originally Published: 10.22.18 Like many diligent public servants, Georgia state Representative Ed Setzler enjoys crowing about a nice, tidy highway project. In a Sept. 8 Facebook video, the Republican appeared to be doing just that from behind the wheel of a car. This was less than three months after the state overwhelmingly

By: Tim Bross, Margaret Cronin Fisk, and Jef Feeley; Source: Bloomberg; Originally Published: 9.4.18 State Farm agreed to pay $250 million on the brink of a trial to customers who claimed the company tried to rig the Illinois justice system to wipe out a $1 billion jury verdict from 19 years ago. The customers were

By: Staff, Source: CBC, Originally Published: June 2018 THE GUARDIANS is a revealing investigative documentary set in Las Vegas that exposes allegations of corruption within the Nevada Guardianship and Family Court system.  The film shines a light on a lucrative business that drains seniors’ life-savings. Victims and their families are caught in a scheme that has allowed

By: Jeremy Belanger, Source: Yahoo TV, Originally Published: 6.4.18 On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver got help from such acting legends as Lily Tomlin, William Shatner, Rita Moreno, Fred Willard, and Cloris Leachman to help baby boomers learn about the dangers of getting older. In a fake public service announcement, the senior celebrities warned the aging baby-boomer

By: William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor, Source: JOC.com, Originally Published: 11.27.17 An 11.5 percent increase in citations for falsifying driver logs and a 14.8 percent jump in the number of drivers put out of service for falsifying logs in the last fiscal year underscore why federal regulators are mandating a switch to electronic logging devices (ELDs)