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The Baton Rouge area added about 2,300 jobs from January to February, including 1,600 new construction jobs, the Baton Rouge Area Chamber reports. 

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. 

Former LABI president Stephen Waguespack and two political action committees supporting him in the Louisiana governor's race will report raising more than $3 million during the past four weeks.

Last year, Louisiana lawmakers approved legislation that allows "any interested person" to challenge the state’s occupational licensing restrictions.

The state’s most prominent business lobby will look a little different during this year’s legislative session now that Stephen Waguespack

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. 

Addressing an insurance crisis gets top billing during the upcoming legislative session, but numerous familiar pro-business issues will share the stage.

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber, as always, will push for transportation infrastructure upgrades during the legislative session that starts Monday. 

The Louisiana chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business plans to press for tax cuts in light of the state’s surplus of dollars.

Seven candidates to be Louisiana’s next governor promised to improve the climate for the state’s businesses if elected.