Troubles roil biodiesel credit-trading market
In recent months, the tax credit-trading market for the biodiesel industry has been rattled by fraud allegations, plummeting confidence and numerous lawsuits. The Houston Chronicle reports the EPA has identified more than 140 million...
DATE: May 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Opening salvo
Baton Rouge is a great town. I know, I know—statistically speaking Baton Rouge is a city, but I still have a difficult time looking at any part of Baton Rouge and think “Yeah, I'm in the city!” NYC, Washington, DC, Houston, Los...
DATE: May 18, 2012 | CATEGORY: The Spoils of Progress
Entrepreneurs will change the world
In the May 225 Magazine issue, the editors described 11 ideas to make Baton Rouge a better place to live and work. But ideas are just ideas until someone makes them happen.
DATE: May 18, 2012 | CATEGORY: Startup Cartography
Time to get serious about the budget cuts to higher education
It's a hard statement to make, but we might as well go ahead and say it from the outset. The cuts being proposed today in higher education, if they are implemented, will be an absolute disaster for Louisiana. Not just a disaster for schools and...
DATE: May 18, 2012 | CATEGORY: Columnists
News roundup: Judge recuses herself from ex-BP engineer's case … Minorities surpass whites in U.S. births … Nation's unemployment aid applications stay at 370,000
On the bench: A federal judge in New Orleans has recused herself from the criminal case against a former BP engineer charged with deleting text messages about the company's response to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S...
DATE: May 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
38.6 million Gulf acres up for grabs in June lease sale
Oil and gas companies have until June 19 to file their bids for the government's upcoming auction of drilling leases in the central Gulf of Mexico, the Interior Department announced today. The Houston Chronicle reports as many as 7,276 blocks...
DATE: May 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Tax credits to help save Spanish Town houses
State historic tax credits will allow for the restoration of five houses that are considered contributing elements to the historic Spanish Town neighborhood. Developer Lance Bennett says he paid about $100,000 each for the houses—three on...
DATE: May 16, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
EBR sales tax receipts up
Sales and use taxes were up 7.37% in the city-parish of East Baton Rouge in March 2012, compared to the same month last year. Year-to-date collections are up 7.49%. Year-to-date collections are up 5.58% in the city and 9.08% in the parish outside...
DATE: May 16, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
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
Kennedy accuses Jindal of using budget scare tactics
Louisiana Treasurer John Kennedy accused Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration today of using scare tactics to drum up support for restoring hundreds of millions of dollars to next year's budget. In a letter to Jindal, Kennedy asks his fellow...
DATE: May 15, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
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