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Southern tennis player among female athletes featured in NIL campaign
Lately, women’s sports have been getting more attention. The LSU women’s basketball team’s victory over Iowa in the NCAA championship game on April 2...
LSU student businesses to compete in pitch competition
Three LSU student businesses will compete against one another next week in a live pitch competition for a slice of an investment prize.
The 12th...
Gayle Benson will keynote this year’s BREW
Gayle Benson, businesswoman and owner of the New Orleans Saints and New Orleans Pelicans, will serve as keynote speaker for the upcoming Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week.
New Baton Rouge hockey team signs three-year lease with River Center
The new Baton Rouge professional hockey team has signed a three-year lease with the Raising Cane’s River Center, officials announced today.
Bluehenge Capital sells portfolio company Iron Horse Tools to Houston investment firm
Baton Rouge-based Bluehenge Capital Partners has sold its portfolio company Iron Horse Tools LLC to Pelican Energy Partners of Houston, the companies announced today.
How to craft the most productive workspace
All work occurs in a place, and the debate about where and what that place should be remains contentious.
Workers are making more conscious choices...
Small business owners are feeling the credit crunch
Borrowing for small businesses was already constrained due to rising interest rates over the past year.
These three new businesses are coming to downtown
Three new businesses are in the works for downtown—two bars for Third Street and a new restaurant on North Boulevard.
Gov. Edwards opens final session with insurance on everyone’s agenda
Gov. John Bel Edwards opened this year’s regular legislative session—his last as governor—with calls for addressing what many lawmakers and business advocates call a crisis in the state’s property insurance market.
Tin Roof’s new food truck is serving up the classics
Tin Roof Brewing Company has rolled out a new food truck to encourage beer-enthusiastic patrons to stick around for a meal—and, perhaps, another beer.
Average age of those working from home has gotten younger
People working from home became younger, more diverse, better educated and more likely to move during the worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic.
How the IRS’ funding boost will benefit small businesses
After months of anticipation, small businesses now have a glimpse of what a revamped Internal Revenue Service could look like as the agency begins...
Louisiana’s occupational licensing rules stirring challenges
Last year, Louisiana lawmakers approved legislation that allows "any interested person" to challenge the state’s occupational licensing restrictions.
Insurance and pro-business bills will take center stage during session
The state’s most prominent business lobby will look a little different during this year’s legislative session now that Stephen Waguespack
Health Care’s new view on AI
Baton Rouge hospitals are embracing artificial intelligence to both enhance patient care and improve efficiency.
What happened to Baton Rouge’s Healthy Food Retail Initiative?
A three-year initiative launched by Mayor Sharon Weston Broome’s administration in late 2019 to recruit new grocery stores to underserved neighborhoods in the parish sunsetted last year without any deals for a new store.
Up to $113M in federal support now available for Louisiana small businesses
Louisiana has officially launched a program that makes up to $113 million in federal support available to small business owners.
The business of Louisiana
Addressing an insurance crisis gets top billing during the upcoming legislative session, but numerous familiar pro-business issues will share the stage.
Medical Metamorphasis
Pennington Biomedical’s groundbreaking Metamor Institute is not only changing the model for treating obesity but is also a research and economic engine.
See what new wrinkles BRAC is pushing as part of its legislative agenda
The Baton Rouge Area Chamber, as always, will push for transportation infrastructure upgrades during the legislative session that starts Monday.
