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The Baton Rouge Area Chamber has begun recruiting businesses to fill empty downtown storefronts. 

Over the past year, inflation in the U.S. has tumbled from 9% all the way to 3%, softening most of the price pressures that have gripped the nation for more than two years.

Legislation to phase out Louisiana’s corporate franchise tax this year was met with a veto from Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards. However, nearly nearly every candidate running to replace him has vowed to support the move.

In 2014, City Park Golf Course had 15,927 rounds played and in 2022 rounds increased to 23,262, a 46% increase. Even more striking, in 2021, City Park recovered 99.2% of its operating costs and in 2022 it recovered 112% of its operating costs, surpassing expenses by nearly $40,000.

Last go-around, in 2019, statewide candidates signed up for office in the executive suite of the Louisiana Secretary of State’s Office in Baton Rouge. 

When ThreeSixtyEight co-founder and CEO Kenny Nguyen relaunched his Assembly Required entrepreneurship series after more than three years without an event, he personified one of his most important lessons about entrepreneurship: “Keep momentum going.”

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Chemical giant Air Products is moving a large drilling rig and platform into Lake Maurepas over the next few days for a groundbreaking yet controversial carbon capture project.

Contractors have plugged more than 10% of Louisiana’s orphaned oil well sites in the first six and half months of work funded by the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in 2021. 

Young people's desire for flexible, low-stress office schedules has led to social media’s latest...