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‘LaPolitics’: Lawmakers may have more capital outlay opportunities
Gov. Jeff Landry’s budget left more meat on the capital outlay bone this year, giving legislators more room to include their own brick-and-mortar priorities.
Lawmakers,...
Why Burgersmith is closing this location
Lafayette-based Burgersmith will close its Siegen Lane restaurant at the end of May after more than 10 years in operation.
Company executives announced Monday that...
Roundup: Wind energy / Garret Graves / Services sector growth
Pressing pause: A coalition of state attorneys general filed a lawsuit Monday against President Donald Trump’s attempt to stop the development of wind energy....
Are tariffs headed for the film industry?
President Donald Trump is opening a new salvo in his tariff war, targeting films made outside the U.S.
In a post Sunday night on his...
Do AI LLMs have values?
As large language models become increasingly integrated into enterprise operations, company executives should remain aware of potential embedded values within the evolving technology, Harvard...
Louisiana takes on Vermont’s new Climate Superfund law
Louisiana has joined nearly two dozen other states in a lawsuit challenging Vermont’s new Climate Superfund Act, saying the law unconstitutionally penalizes consumers and...
Roundup: The Fed / Car insurance reform / Home prices
Staying on course: The Federal Reserve will likely keep its key short-term interest rate unchanged—at about 4.3%—on Wednesday, despite weeks of harsh criticism and...
Returning Saturday, Night Market BTR is a business launchpad
Night Market BTR returns to downtown Baton Rouge this weekend, and it’s bigger than ever.
The open-air market, now in its third year, aims to...
This massive coastal restoration project is in peril
An ambitious project to restore a rapidly vanishing stretch of Louisiana coast that was devastated by the 2010 Gulf oil spill has been thrown...
This infrastructure design firm just announced a partnership with Drew Brees
HNTB Corp., a national infrastructure design firm with an office in downtown Baton Rouge, on Thursday announced an exclusive partnership with legendary New Orleans...
White House budget calls for $163B in federal cuts next year
On Friday, the White House released a partial budget proposal calling for $163 billion in cuts to federal spending in the next fiscal year,...
Wall Street gains ground following a stronger-than-expected jobs report
Stocks rallied in afternoon trading on Wall Street Friday following a stronger-than-expected report on the U.S. job market.
The S&P 500 gained 1.5%, putting the...
Roundup: Green growth / Lemonade Day / Airbnb
Deere dealership: Sunshine Quality Solutions, the John Deere dealer representing south Louisiana, has kicked off construction on its new Baton Rouge location. As WBRZ-TV...
St. Vincent de Paul Baton Rouge has a new CEO
St. Vincent de Paul Baton Rouge on Friday announced that Sunnie Johnson-Lain has been selected as its new CEO.
Johnson-Lain currently serves as CEO of...
Roundup: SNAP benefits / Kentucky Derby / An accolade
MAHA’s impact: Louisiana will seek a waiver from the federal government to prohibit the purchase of candy and soft drinks with federal food assistance—part...
Permits to build apartments in the US drop below pre-pandemic levels
A new report finds that permits to build multifamily housing units in the U.S. are down 27.1% from the COVID-19 pandemic building boom and...
Jobs report: Market shows resilience amid uncertainty
American employers added a better-than-expected 177,000 jobs in April as the job market showed resilience in the face of President Donald Trump’s trade wars.
Hiring...
This Ascension Parish child care and early learning facility just changed hands
A day care property in Prairieville recently was sold, as a child care and early learning center operator expands its footprint in Ascension Parish.
Shriver...
‘LaPolitics’: Attorney general, secretary of state pushing legislative agendas
Attorney General Liz Murrill and Secretary of State Nancy Landry, Louisiana's highest-ranking women in elected office, are both pushing aggressive legislative agendas in the...
North Baton Rouge is hosting a small business summit next week
Small businesses in north Baton Rouge will have an opportunity to get insights into accessing capital, business scaling, digital growth and more at an...
