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Essential Credit Union pushes into Texas with merger 

Baton Rouge’s Essential Credit Union today announced it is merging with Priority Postal Credit...

How Louisiana could lose millions in gas tax revenues by 2040 

A new report from a Libertarian think tank highlights Louisiana's declining gasoline tax revenues...

Queen of Sparkles is moving to Perkins Road

The Baton Rouge-based clothing and accessory brand Queen of Sparkles is moving to Perkins...

Cold front continues for Capital Region housing market

Following national trends, the Capital Region’s housing market is continuing to cool amid lowering inventory, elevated sales prices and high interest rates. 

IBM plans $2.3B software purchase as it invests in AI and cloud technology 

IBM announced this morning it plans to buy German software company Software AG’s webMethods...

US health care spending rises to $4.5 trillion

After skyrocketing in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and then tempering almost as dramatically a year later, health care spending in the U.S. rose just over 4% in 2022, hitting $4.5 trillion, the federal government announced last week.

City-parish buys shopping center by airport as part of $54M project 

East Baton Rouge City-Parish bought the shopping center at the corner of Plank and Hooper roads on behalf of the neighboring Greater Baton Rouge Airport District as part of a $54 million airport and traffic project. 

Do emojis have a place in professional work communications?

The use of emojis in interpersonal communications has become commonplace, but many people seem...

Louisiana is the first state to gain full approval of its ‘Internet for All’ proposal 

The federal government has approved the second part of Louisiana’s plan to spend more than $1.35 billion to provide high-speed internet throughout the state, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced today. 

Why Gov. John Bel Edwards wants to remain a Democrat 

Outgoing Gov. John Bel Edwards is a conservative, Southern Democrat who some have speculated might have been better served if he had been willing to switch parties.