Penny is the Chief Content Officer for Melara Enterprises and Executive Editor of Baton Rouge Business Report. She has a passion for journalism that makes a difference, epic photography, engaging graphic design and platforms that provide new opportunities for storytelling. She is a national award-winning writer and editor with over three decades of experience in metro markets, including Chicago, Kansas City, Dallas and Baton Rouge. She manages the editorial team for Melara Enterprises that produces 225, inRegister, 10/12 Industry Report and Baton Rouge Business Report.

Know your Louisiana governors

Next week marks the birthdays of the Brothers Long—Uncle Earl (Aug. 26, 1895) and...

Renee Chatelain is ready to lead the Arts Council

For the past five years, Renee Chatelain has served as executive director of Manship...

‘Business Report’: Promoting a healthy lifestyle among employees helps the bottom line

Employees spend anywhere between one-third to half of their day at the office, so...

Thinkstream debt reaches $21 million

Thinkstream, a Baton Rouge tech firm that provides software to hundreds of local, state...

FLASHBACK/The Year: 2008

As football season gets underway, fan shops all across Louisiana are gearing up for...

Beau Box firm takes on trademark infringement allegations in Baton Rouge federal court

Just months after Beau Box Real Estate expanded and rebranded its residential firm, its...

Union Pacific sues oil firm over SIT yard delays

Union Pacific Railroad Co.’s construction of a storage-in-transit, or SIT, yard in Livonia designed...

Thinkstream creditors, equity interest holders total 700; include Shaquille O’Neal and D.C. lobbying firm The Livingston Group

Financially troubled Thinkstream has roughly 200 creditors and more than 500 equity interest holders—with...

COVER-Mini index for opening page

INSIDE: 28 Politics and new recruits: Baton Rouge and New Orleans are finally working together...