Gas and oil prices shift fracking focus in La., rest of U.S.
While northwestern Louisiana, Pennsylvania and other gas-rich shale plays across the United States are losing jobs and revenue as the fracking industry shrinks following a price collapse, oil-rich North Dakota and Texas are in the midst of a boom,...
DATE: May 15, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Your Business
• Adams and Reese's Baton Rouge office will be awarded the Pro Bono Publico Award from the Louisiana State Bar Association later this month. The award honors the office's attorneys for their enhancement and promotion of pro bono services in...
DATE: May 14, 2012 | CATEGORY: Current Issue
LSU in limbo
Pissing people off is nothing new for John Lombardi. But one higher education official found the now-former LSU System president a bit more aggressive than usual when he spoke to the Louisiana House education committee in late April.
DATE: May 14, 2012 | CATEGORY: Current Issue
Death and taxes
Two things in life are certain: Death and taxes, as the adage goes.
DATE: May 14, 2012 | CATEGORY: Current Issue
Supersized
Three years into an organized effort to give southeastern Louisiana a more powerful voice in its economic future, leaders of the fledgling initiative say it has found its wings. The Southeast Super-Region Committee, formed to unite the Baton Rouge,...
DATE: May 14, 2012 | CATEGORY: Current Issue
Let’s set the agenda for parish elections
This fall you will go to the polls and decide who will lead our community for the next four years.
DATE: May 14, 2012 | CATEGORY: Rolfe McCollister
Reading, writing and leading
Parse the inflammatory rhetoric on the subjects of public education, school choice and independent districts, and what you are left with is this simple, inescapable conclusion: Few people, if any, are happy with the current state of academic affairs...
DATE: May 14, 2012 | CATEGORY: JR Ball
Report: Spending at Louisiana casinos held steady in 2011
Spending at casinos was flat in 2011 compared with 2010 in Louisiana, the only state among the top 10 casino markets to report neither a gain nor a loss in the year, The Times-Picayune reports. Gamblers left $2.37 billion at Louisiana casinos...
DATE: May 10, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
U.S. hiring slows in April
U.S. employers cut back on hiring in April and more people gave up the hunt for work, dimming hopes the economy was turning a corner just as President Barack Obama prepared to launch his re-election campaign, according to a report by Reuters.
DATE: May 04, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Motorists get minor reprieve at the pump
The average gas price in Baton Rouge fell 5.7 cents per gallon over the past week, according to GasBuddy.com, with an average of $3.65 a gallon on Sunday. The U.S. average also trickled down 3.3 cents per gallon over the week and was at $3.81...
DATE: April 30, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
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