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Roundup: Casino merger / Nissan and Honda / Amazon
Approved: The Louisiana Gaming Control Board has approved a proposed merger between Bally's Corporation and The Queen Casino & Entertainment. The deal merges Bally's...
Blueprints for Baton Rouge: A look at five cities that are getting it right
Baton Rouge is on the verge of transformation.
Proposals such as the nicknamed “string of pearls” project—which includes a vision for an LSU arena to...
OTC Industrial Technologies acquires two Baton Rouge companies
Two Baton Rouge industrial equipment and service firms―Premier Equipment Corporation Inc. and Premier Control Systems LLC―are under new ownership.
Ohio-based industrial equipment service provider and...
Last chance: Nominations closing soon for 225’s Twenty in their 20s
It’s back: 225‘s second annual Twenty in their 20s issue, a special edition celebrating Baton Rouge’s up-and-coming leaders, creators and difference makers, returns this...
Roundup: Egg prices / Sen. Bill Cassidy / Federal workers quit
Sunny side upcharge: The Waffle House restaurant chain is putting a 50 cent per egg surcharge in place due to the biggest bird flu...
Sales tax collections continue to rise in East Baton Rouge
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This Baton Rouge concert venue might be closing this summer
Red Dragon Listening Room, an intimate nonprofit concert venue on Florida Boulevard, is closing this summer after 24 years in business—unless its owners can...
These are the two biggest keys to assessing a housing market
When assessing home price momentum, it’s important to monitor active listings and months of supply, Fast Company reports.
If active listings sharply increase while homes...
What the latest job opening numbers indicate about the labor market
U.S. job openings fell in December, a sign that the labor market is cooling but still healthy.
Openings fell to 7.6 million, from 8.2 million...
Roundup: Restaurant shrimp / Sovereign wealth fund / NIL deals
Not from Louisiana: A new round of genetic seafood testing conducted for a state advisory panel detected foreign shrimp that was falsely presented as...
‘LaPolitics’: Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race is on a fast track
As U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy faces what may be one of the most important votes of his political career in Washington, state Treasurer John...
US oil frackers aren’t buying into Trump’s ‘drill, baby drill.’ Here’s why
President Trump wants to boost oil drilling, but his allies in the U.S. shale industry and Saudi Arabia are pushing back, The Wall Street...
Why Shell is walking away from its planned wind farm off of New Jersey
In the first serious fallout from President Donald Trump’s early actions against offshore wind power, oil and gas giant Shell is walking away from...
Roundup: Jay Ducote / Interest rates / Oil production
Next bite: Baton Rouge celebrity chef Jay Ducote is the host of a new cooking competition series released last week. The six-episode Southern Food...
Here’s what it would cost to shrink the Gulf’s dead zone by 45%
A coalition of researchers from West Virginia University, Iowa State University and the Texas Soil and Water Research Laboratory has determined that decreasing nitrogen...
Roundup: Sen. John Kennedy / Honda in Ohio / US manufacturing
New assignment: Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy has landed a key leadership assignment that increases Louisiana's influence in Congress. Kennedy has secured the chairmanship of...
See how oil prices are reacting to the threat of US tariffs on Canadian...
Oil prices jumped on Monday amid fears that President Donald Trump’s hefty tariffs on major trade partners could disrupt supplies and raise prices at...
What Trump now says about the impact that tariffs will have on Americans
President Donald Trump said Sunday that Americans could feel “some pain” from the emerging trade war triggered by his tariffs against Canada, Mexico and...
[Sponsored] About the renewal of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library millage
Your award-winning East Baton Rouge Parish Library system is funded almost entirely by a 10-year, dedicated property tax; that tax will EXPIRE in 2025. The Metro Council must...
