Stephanie Riegel is the editor of Business Report.

LeBlanc’s vows to fight Walmart Neighborhood Market planned across the street from Gonzales store

The owners of LeBlanc’s Food Stores plan to fight a proposed Walmart Neighborhood Market...

Beyond Bricks initiative aims to raise dialog on EBR public education

A new grassroots organization of parents, educators, religious leaders and business executives is gearing...

🔒 Stephanie Riegel: Common Core and the politics of extremism

When I began my reporting career in the late 1980s there still existed a...

🔒 Stuck in the weeds: Gap financing and grants are small but successful

Two of the RDA's most successful endeavors arguably have been its gap financing and...

🔒 Stuck in the weeds: The RDA’s original mission

(Photo by Don Kadair: Lynn Clark of Habitat for Humanity) There are more than 6,500...

🔒 Stuck in the weeds: The tax credits problem

In 2009 the RDA received $60 million in federal New Markets Tax Credits, which...

🔒 Stuck in the weeds: Five years and millions of dollars later, why doesn’t the EBR Redevelopment Authority have more to show for its...

In a slick, glossy report published by the East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority in...

🔒 Stuck in the weeds: Unrealized plans

(Photo courtesy Emory University: Frank Alexander) Before the RDA could go about redeveloping blighted neighborhoods...

Alvarez finishes Jamestown in BR, turns attention to St. Tammany development

Last Thursday marked a milestone for local residential developer Carlos Alvarez: He sold the...

‘Advocate’ doubles digital reach while BR area print circulation continues to decline

During the first full year of John Georges’ ownership, The Advocate’s digital circulation more...
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