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.

LABI president: EPA’s proposed rules on waterway oversight would slow permitting process, delay projects

While lower ozone standards proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have garnered a...

‘Business Report’: Facing fierce competition, regional supermarkets beginning to act more like restaurants

When it opens in downtown Baton Rouge in 2015, Matherne’s Supermarket—the first full-service grocery...

La. private sector sets new employment records in Oct.

Louisiana’s private sector employers added 30,000 jobs between October 2013 and October this year,...

News roundup: BR firm reaches agreement to make Marvel character masks … Nearly half of all La. small business owners say sales up since...

Cause and effects: Baton Rouge-based Composite Effects, or CFX, says it has entered into...

Chevron marks milestone with start of oil and gas production at major fields off La. coast

Chevron Corp. says that it has begun crude oil and natural gas production at...

Coca-Cola sign dispute keeps iconic sign dark as downtown lights up for the holidays

The holiday season in downtown Baton Rouge officially kicks off Friday evening with the...

News roundup: Landrieu, Cassidy get testy in final Senate debate … LSU-Eunice’s chancellor to retire … LSU sociologists to lead study on oil spill...

Parting shots: Embattled Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu largely dumped her message of seniority and...

Falling prices could eliminate U.S. oil production growth, report says

Production cuts resulting from low oil prices could eliminate the growth in U.S. output...

Teachers decry Vitter’s shift to oppose Common Core

Louisiana educators say they’re upset, discouraged and disheartened at U.S. Sen. David Vitter’s Monday...