Economic Development

Business expansions, relocations, incentives, and investment fueling economic growth across the Baton Rouge area.

Working from home, casual dress not helping dry cleaners

The pandemic has been a significant challenge to dry cleaning businesses like Kean’s Fine Dry Cleaning.

Federal funds to fix past road mistakes could be used to extend EBR bus lines

The U.S. Department of Transportation has launched its first-ever program “to help reconnect communities...

Public sector is having a hard time hiring, too

While the number of private-sector jobs surpassed its pre-pandemic level, there are 664,000 fewer...

Grön Fuels secures engineering agreement for West Baton Rouge complex

Koch Engineered Solutions today announced it has executed a definitive engineering, procurement and construction...

JR Ball: Can we really handle the truth about Baton Rouge? 

As anyone who’s taken a college-level philosophy course can attest, defining what is the...

What should companies tell their employees about abortion?

Louisiana now can enforce its ban on almost all abortions under a judge’s order issued today. 
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What the US military spends in Louisiana versus other states

U.S. defense spending in Louisiana reached $4.3 billion in 2020, accounting for about 0.7%...

Flush with federal dollars, this legislative session brought rare opportunities 

If the Louisiana Legislature’s 2022 regular session is remembered for one thing, it will be infrastructure.

Managers are joining the Great Resignation, too 

Employees are still leaving jobs in droves—as many as 60,000 Louisiana workers quit in...

State has transferred sections of 20 roadways to EBR under program

Fred Raiford, director of transportation for East Baton Rouge Parish, sees upsides and downsides in the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development
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