Gregory Gilmore
Greg Gilmore went corporate for a while, working for Merrill Lynch in New Jersey and New York City, but came home to Louisiana to start his own business. At age 13, he says, he sometimes worked 50 to 70 hours a week during the summer at construction...
DATE: May 14, 2012 | CATEGORY: Executive Spotlight
News roundup: Obama voices his personal support for gay marriage … Parks Service pins Army on question of N.O. levee sites … Applications open for upcoming SeNSE Pitch Night
Political gamble: Ending months of equivocation, President Barack Obama today declared his support for gay marriage, an announcement fraught with history that also injects a potentially polarizing issue into the 2012 race for the White House.
DATE: May 09, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Capitol Views: Panel OKs merging LSUS with La. Tech; drug testing for welfare recipients clears committee
The major higher education bill of the session, to merge LSU Shreveport into Louisiana Tech, heads to the House floor after passing the Education Committee today.
DATE: May 08, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Defining the Capital Region
Baton Rouge” means “red stick.” It's French, but visitors and new arrivals shouldn't feel obligated to pronounce it that way. No one else does.
DATE: April 29, 2012 | CATEGORY: Current Issue
Capitol Views: Panel backs rebates for public school donors
If the state is going to offer rebates to donations for private school tuition, it only seemed fair to offer a similar break for contributions to public schools. The House Ways & Means Committee passed along House Bill 1106 today, which would give a...
DATE: April 24, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Capitol Views by Maginnis: Panel backs rebates for public school donors
If the state is going to offer rebates to donations for private school tuition, it only seemed fair to offer a similar break for contributions to public schools. The House Ways & Means Committee passed along House Bill 1106 today, which would give a...
DATE: April 24, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Companies to pay $14.8M in FEMA trailer settlement
Nearly two dozen companies that manufactured government-issued trailers for storm victims after Hurricane Katrina have agreed to pay $14.8 million in a proposed class-action settlement over claims that the temporary shelters exposed occupants to...
DATE: April 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Big failings found in nursing homes' disaster plans
Nearly seven years after Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans exposed the vulnerability of nursing homes, serious shortcomings in disaster emergency plans persist at facilities in Louisiana and across the United States, government...
DATE: April 16, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Better days ahead for local real estate?
Branon Pesnell of Beau Box Commercial Real Estate compares the past few years in the real estate business to a long, hard climb up a snowy mountain. In 2010, he says, he didn't complete a single transaction from January until October.
DATE: April 16, 2012 | CATEGORY: Current Issue
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