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According to LSU’s annual Louisiana Survey, most Louisiana residents believe the state is headed in the wrong direction, and only 28% are either “very confident” or “somewhat confident” in state government to address pressing problems. 

LaPolitics: With RESET, your nonprofit policy campaign that you partner with others on, there’s...

Four of Louisiana’s five courts of appeal—though not the one based in Baton Rouge—are...

Baton Rouge’s manufacturing industry saw a record high 30,900 jobs in June, according to the latest numbers from the Baton Rouge Area Chamber’s monthly dashboard that breaks down the Capital Region’s economic growth. 

A generation ago nonprofit organizations regularly lobbied for legislation and served as advocates on issues. But according to a recent survey, charities are now far more reluctant to seek to influence lawmakers and other policymakers.

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber has begun recruiting businesses to fill empty downtown storefronts. 

In 2014, City Park Golf Course had 15,927 rounds played and in 2022 rounds increased to 23,262, a 46% increase. Even more striking, in 2021, City Park recovered 99.2% of its operating costs and in 2022 it recovered 112% of its operating costs, surpassing expenses by nearly $40,000.

When ThreeSixtyEight co-founder and CEO Kenny Nguyen relaunched his Assembly Required entrepreneurship series after more than three years without an event, he personified one of his most important lessons about entrepreneurship: “Keep momentum going.”

The foot traffic going in and around I Rivermark Centre in downtown Baton Rouge...

The U.S.S. Kidd is expected to be absent from downtown for at least a year as it undergoes repairs too extensive to be completed while docked in Baton Rouge, WBRZ reports.