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The Historic Spanish Town Civic Association has taken a firm stance against a hard liquor license for Belli, the former Capitol Grocery.

Reducing crime, retaining tax credits for film productions and legalizing marijuana are ways Louisiana’s gubernatorial candidates say the state could boost its tourism industry.

The Capital Area Transit System board has tapped Theo Richards, the system’s business development director, to be interim CEO, and has hired a search firm to find a permanent leader. 

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The federal government will, for the first time, dictate staffing levels at nursing homes, the Biden administration said this morning, responding to systemic problems bared by mass COVID-19 deaths.

The nation's employers added a solid 187,000 jobs in August in a sign of a still-resilient labor market despite the high interest rates the Federal Reserve has imposed.

Black Americans make up about 12.6% of the workforce. But they comprise more than one-third of certain postal, transit, health care and security jobs, Pew Research Center reports in a Labor Day study.

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The litigants in the ongoing legal fight over the possible incorporation of St. George in East Baton Rouge Parish have filed their briefs with the Louisiana Supreme Court. 

The Marathon Petroleum refinery in Garyville, where a large chemical fire forced evacuations last week, has had more than a dozen emergency incidents within the past five years, state records indicate.