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
Jones resigns as RIO director
Terry Jones has submitted his resignation to the Baton Rouge Area Chamber as head of its Regional Innovation Organization, BRAC officials announced this morning. Details on why Jones is departing, and exactly when, remain scarce as of press time.
DATE: May 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
B.R. startup's solution to nutria problem: Make dog treats
A lot of seemingly wacky ideas have been bandied about through the years to get Louisiana's nutria problem under control, but this one may take the cake—or biscuit, rather: Turn them into dog treats. A new Baton Rouge-based company called...
DATE: May 10, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Pick and pan
(From The Washington Post) As a software company, Arlington-based Opower says it has three assets: its employees, clients and intellectual property. And the way to protect the latter is through patents.
DATE: May 07, 2012 | CATEGORY: News
What's the big idea?
"Every really new idea looks crazy at first.” Alfred North Whitehead, pillar of Cambridge and founding father of analytic psychology, said that. Radiohead, an art-rock group of English intellectuals of a different sort, once had a song called...
DATE: May 01, 2012 | CATEGORY: News (225)
A dispute among neighbors
Nucor's planned steel facility in St. James Parish, if fully built out as announced, will consist of five phases and a $3.4 billion investment supporting about 1,250 jobs, creating an economic ripple effect that would impact the Capital Region.
DATE: April 30, 2012 | CATEGORY: Current Issue
A new Spanish Town
A long-planned infill development at Spanish Town Road and North 13th Street consisting of 100 mixed-income apartments is set to break ground in the next 30 days, says Donnie Jarreau (pictured), a partner in the project called The Elysian.
DATE: April 30, 2012 | CATEGORY: Current Issue
Breaking away
Even before the ink is dry on his contract, the incoming superintendent of East Baton Rouge Parish public schools is dealing with a controversy over a proposed breakaway school district that would remove from the parish some of its best-performing...
DATE: April 30, 2012 | CATEGORY: Current Issue
CATS looks ahead
On the Monday after majorities in Baton Rouge and Baker voted to give the Capital Area Transit System a dedicated tax revenue stream, system CEO Brian Marshall met with his employees. He told them the April 21 result was not a victory for CATS.
DATE: April 30, 2012 | CATEGORY: Current Issue
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