Business News

Breaking news, company moves, economic trends, and the deals shaping Greater Baton Rouge and the Capital Region.

JR Ball: Baton Rouge will have a mayor’s race after all

Steve Carter's surprise entry into the mayor's race instantly made him the most serious threat to Sharon Weston Broome’s reelection chances.

Riegel: Battling the pandemic in a post-truth era

With a full-scale, global crisis on our hands, the reality of what it means to dispute reality is, well, downright dystopian in the post-truth era.

Publisher: Stop the world, I want to get off

Facing the world each day in a mask, 6 feet away from anyone I encounter, I read and watch the national and local news and wonder, “What’s going on? When will sanity return?”

After finding workplace testing niche, Relief Telemed looks for school partnerships

Relief Telemed, the 1-year-old local telemedicine startup that, over the past 60 days, has...

BRAC’s economic indicators show consumer spending near pre-pandemic levels

Consumer spending had normalized in the Capital Region to near pre-pandemic levels in the...

Virus roundup … 

• The cost of groceries has been rising at the fastest pace in decades...
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Voices for equity

Black members of the business community, through the sharing of their stories, put the spotlight on boosting economic opportunities.

Diversifying Baton Rouge boardrooms

BRAC and other local organizations are determined to bring increased diversity to boardrooms across the Baton Rouge region.

Business bracing for costly health insurance news

COVID-19 will indeed have an impact on health insurance premiums, which almost certainly will rise, but by how much remains the question?

Baton Rouge government avoids massive cuts for now, thanks to CARES Act, belt tightening 

As the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic deepens, city-parish government is tightening its...
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