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BRAF shakes up senior leadership staff to align with new goals
The Baton Rouge Area Foundation has promoted four employees to senior leadership roles.
Provocative photos by Olivia Dunne and other female athletes stir NIL concerns
Female college athletes are making millions thanks to their large social media followings and the passage in 2021 of new rules allowing college athletes...
BlinkJar Media moving into Garden District office space on Perkins
Baton Rouge-based marketing agency BlinkJar Media today announced it has purchased an office on Perkins Road with plans to move its operations from Interline...
See where Gulf’s first offshore wind farms will locate
The federal government has selected the first two areas for offshore wind development in the Gulf of Mexico, clearing the way for a process...
Ten businesses to compete in Nexus pitch competition Wednesday
Ten emerging businesses will pitch their innovative business ideas for a chance to win $10,000 at Nexus Louisiana’s Demo Day on Wednesday.
Advocates call on states to make widespread EV charging stations a reality
For years, electric vehicles posed something of a chicken-and-egg problem.
Mass adoption, seen as critical to cutting the largest single source of U.S. carbon emissions,...
Will Louisiana industry be a leader in the energy transition?
Louisiana industry’s movement away from traditional forms of energy has begun. Biofuels, hydrogen, green ammonia, and the utilization of carbon dioxide are each getting their own attention, but the pace in which they’ll become reality is up for debate.
LSU’s OT win demonstrates why risk of failure shouldn’t paralyze your decisions
Baton Rouge has been abuzz since LSU's Brian Kelly made the gutsy decision to go for a 2-point conversion at the end of overtime instead of playing it safe by kicking the extra point. After a hard-fought game between two SEC juggernauts, Kelly's choice to go for the win distilled the entire game down into a single play.
CityStats: 70% of residents say EBR is headed in the wrong direction
A record number of residents are worried about whether their children can thrive here, and believe East Baton Rouge Parish is going in the wrong direction
Like Louisiana politics, state’s ‘I Voted’ stickers have a style all their own
The vivid, variegated creations of Becky Fos have become as innate in the Louisiana landscape as the native flora and fauna that her paintings...
BRAC canvas trip: Does downtown need an updated redevelopment plan?
The cohort of more than 100 Baton Rouge-area community leaders in business, local government and education came away from the Baton Rouge Area Chamber’s canvas trip to Greenville, South Carolina, with a familiar tune: The need for a focus on downtown.
Metro Council to take up deferred $200M Harveston bond issue
The East Baton Rouge Metro Council is set to take up a proposal to allow the Harveston Economic Development District to issue up to...
Congress unlikely to make daylight saving time permanent
If you were hoping Sunday was the last of the twice-annual ritual of changing clocks to match the adjustment of daylight saving time, the...
Louisiana schools using COVID funding for capital expenditures
Louisiana public schools are spending millions in COVID-19 relief funding on new classrooms, cafeteria expansions, teacher bonuses, and HVAC renovations, The Center Square reports.
A seismic shift in real estate
The days of cheap money and a frenzied post-pandemic real estate market are over as the cooling residential sector swings toward buyers—if they can afford the mortgage.
TILT buys The Spanish Moon with plans to turn it into its headquarters
Historic bar and music venue The Spanish Moon has been purchased for $385,000 by Baton Rouge design and branding firm TILT, Elifin Realty announced...
Local investors set to buy Bahamas resort
A holding company including Baton Rouge investors is set to buy Fernandez Bay Village, a small resort on Cat Island in the Bahamas.
Baton Rouge’s...
BRAC canvas trip: Student internships can improve talent retention
Multiple times during the Baton Rouge Area Chamber’s Regional Benchmarking Workshop the delegation from the Capitol Region heard Greenville, South Carolina, city leaders and...
Roundup: Oil refiners / Macy’s Parade / Gannett Co.
Full blast: U.S. oil refiners will operate their plants at breakneck rates this quarter, near or above 90% of capacity, as tight fuel supplies...
Remote-first workplaces getting extravagant with company retreats
After more than two years of working from home, employers are getting their teams back together for some much-needed face time. For the increasing...
