Steve joined the Business Report team in 2010, and has since served as a staff reporter, online news editor and executive editor. He's currently managing editor. He was previously a reporter at The Vicksburg Post, Florida Keys Keynoter and Tri-Parish Times.

Amedisys names Kusserow as new president and CEO

Baton Rouge-based home health and hospice company Amedisys announced this morning that it has...

La. moves five spots down Judicial Hellholes ranking to No. 7

Noting there’s still a lot of work to do to reform and improve the...

Alford: Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for the pain

Jeremy Alford says there simply aren’t enough candy canes in the North Pole to...

Crude seen falling to $50 a barrel in 2015 as OPEC fails to stem glut, survey says

Crude oil prices are poised to fall below half where they were six months...

Memories of financial crisis fading as risks begin to rise again

Six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, The Associated Press reports, there are...

The Franchisee: Chuck and Denise Kerr

Chuck and Denise Kerr were looking for a fresh concept when they came upon...

BREC to present results of golf operations study at public meeting Tuesday evening

BREC announced today it will hold a public meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday to...

Early slowdown signs emerge for US oil states impacted by crude slide

After leading the U.S. economic recovery out of recession, some of the nation's top...

‘Business Report’: Independent contractors in ER can prove costly for patients

It’s the stuff of parents’ nightmares: A child takes a bad fall on the...