Investing in fine art can help diversify a portfolio

(Photography by Megan Thompson Lovoi: Amanda Winstead of New Orleans) It’s more fun to own...

Premier Health of Baton Rouge: The fastest-growing local company you’ve probably never heard of

(Photography by Don Kadair: Premier Health CEO Steve Sellars) During the late 1990s, Dr. Kevin...

Baton Rouge Health District master plan includes new roads, LSU medical school

A new LSU medical school, new boulevard and a center dedicated to treating obesity...

Twenty-five years have passed since Teach for America set foot in south Louisiana classrooms. Has it made any difference?

(Photography by Don Kadair: Michelle Gieg at Democracy Prep Baton Rouge) When Michelle Gieg first...

Teach for America at 25: Inside Lucas Spielfogel’s TFA experience

(Photography by Don Kadair: Lucas Spielfogel) At 22 years old, Lucas Spielfogel was “in a...

Teach for America at 25: Performance assessment

Are Teach for America teachers any good? Studies touted by TFA suggest the students...

A new coalition called CRISIS joins business and industry to tackle the traffic problem.

(Photography by Brian Baiamonte: John Pacillo) The Capital Region has long had serious traffic problems,...

Two brothers have grown Smith Tank & Steel from a startup offering water tower repairs to a multimillion-dollar industrial services firm

(Photography by Brian Baiamonte: Billy Smith and Sam Smith Jr.) Brothers Billy Smith and Sam...

An energy firm plans to convert bagasse into biomass that can be burned in coal-fired plants without pricey retrofitting

When sugar cane is ground up, a wet, fluffy, fibrous byproduct called bagasse is...

In a post Stanford Group world, how can investors avoid being the victim of a scam? It’s not easy.

Blaine Smith considered Jason Green, a former director at the Stanford Group’s Baton Rouge...