Drilling prospects spark land rush to Illinois
It's not a festival or the 19th-century architecture that's drawing late-model cars from Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania to the downtown square of McLeansboro, a tiny, southern Illinois community. It's the musty vault inside the county...
DATE: May 14, 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
Du Jour: Sammy Chenevert
This weekend's Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival marks one of the last big events of crawfish season, which will sadly wane by the end of the month.
DATE: May 03, 2012 | CATEGORY: News (225)
Sammy Chenevert
This weekend’s Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival marks one of the last big events of crawfish season, which will sadly wane by the end of the month. Before the curtain call, however, Little Village Corporate Chef Sammy Chenevert...
DATE: May 03, 2012 | CATEGORY: (Dine) Du Jour
Where we can go from here
While I agree with Mark E. Martin’s Rant in the March 2012 issue, and I fully support his call to increase Baton Rouge’s friendliness toward pedestrians and bikes, there’s something simple everyone can do until the city becomes...
DATE: May 01, 2012 | CATEGORY: News (225)
News roundup: FDA says Gulf seafood safe despite oil spill concerns … Jindal administration still working on estimate for pension budget hole … State cautions businesses about scam
When it's sink or swim: Photos of fish with sores may raise concern about long-term environmental effects of the massive BP oil spill, but federal health officials say the Gulf seafood that's on the market is safe to eat. After all,...
DATE: April 20, 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
News roundup: Apple market value hits $600B … Maryland becomes first state to ban employers from seeking online passwords … Watson Walmart opens today
Pleasantly plump: Apple, already the world's most valuable company, hit the $600 billion level for the first time Tuesday. Only one other company has been worth $600 billion: Apple's old sparring partner Microsoft Corp., which...
DATE: April 11, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Education bills head to Jindal's desk
The House signed off on two major education bills in the governor's agenda today, which were amended more than changed at their core by the Senate, and have sent them to the governor's desk.
DATE: April 05, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Term limits join session's big issues
As hard as this legislative session has been on teachers, those taking a worse beating are the school boards. But the issues that have teachers rallying in front of the Capitol are not those that have school board members most concerned. Having...
DATE: April 03, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
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