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Help reducing lengthy permitting delays in Baton Rouge could come as early as next month

The South Central Planning and Development Commission has been selected to provide expedited building...

Long retired Baton Rouge airport director’s contracts with BTR raise questions

A former director for the Baton Rouge Metro Airport, who retired more than 20...

Hurricane reconstruction in Texas and Florida will almost certainly increase Baton Rouge construction prices

While construction workers are flocking to the Houston area to land jobs rebuilding the...

Hola Nola says hello to Houston

Kevin Holden, left, and Rod Olsen came up with the idea of launching a...

3 key components of a successful Blue Ocean Shift

W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, authors of the best-selling Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing. It...

Louisiana officials confident feds will fast-track key coastal restoration projects

Nearly 10 months into the Trump administration, Louisiana officials say they are making headway...

Remember the downtown parking plan? It’s still in the works, but behind schedule

In Nov. 2016, then-Mayor Kip Holden’s administration announced it had selected a team of...

Baton Rouge tech community singing the IBM blues

BLUE BAYOU: The arrival of IBM in 2013 was hailed as a tech sector “game...

A familiar story: IBM has had trouble living up to its incentive-based employment promises in other states as well

State and local economic development officials were quick to defend the state’s renegotiated contract...

News alert: Darryl Gissel to be named new CAO

Mayor Sharon Weston Broome will name realtor Darryl Gissel as the city's new chief...
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