2021 Business Awards and Hall of Fame: Honoring four Baton Rouge business leaders and two homegrown companies that embraced risk-taking on the journey to success.
Baton Rouge-based creative agency MESH was honored as Best in Show Overall at the annual American Advertising Awards, held last Saturday as a drive-in event at L’Auberge Casino Hotel.
Last year, women held 30% of the highest-paid jobs among LSU’s core employees, but received only 25% of the dollars that went to the university’s top earners.
The Southeast Super Region Committee—a partnership of economic development organizations that includes the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, Greater New Orleans Inc., and the South Louisiana Council—has come out in support of a bill that would raise the state’s gasoline tax to fund key infrastructure projects while also increasing oversight of the state transportation department.