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Despite bump, Louisiana teacher salaries likely to remain below Southern average

An analysis of the most recent public school teacher salary data shows Louisiana still trails most of its regional peers—and is likely to remain there despite the Legislature adding $2,000 for the upcoming school year.

Opinion| The joy of passion and great expectations

Baton Rouge has the potential to be as successful as LSU sports if we're willing to invest the same passion and expectations.

Opinion| Why can’t Baton Rouge get synchronized traffic signals?

If you think 23 years is enough time to get traffic lights synchronized in Baton Rouge ... you would be sadly wrong.

Five Guys among new businesses coming to Settlement on Shoe Creek in Central

Five Guys is set to open a location at The Settlement on Shoe Creek shopping center in Central.

Baton Rouge security camera initiative gains buy-in from business community

The Page/Rice Camera Initiative, backed by the business community, has raised around $400,000 to buy and install security cameras around Baton Rouge.

See who America’s top-paid CEOs were in 2022 and how much they made

Nine CEOs of publicly traded U.S. companies made more than $100 million in 2022, The Wall Street Journal reports in its latest rundown of the country’s highest-paid executives.

Louisiana regulators join other states in scrutinizing utilities’ political expenses

At least three states—Colorado, Connecticut and Maine—passed laws this spring barring utilities from charging customers for their lobbying, public relations spending and dues to political trade associations.

Is the US labor market beginning to cool?

The U.S. labor market is starting to loosen up, according to the Federal Reserve’s go-to metric for assessing the economy. But data from LinkedIn shows a more pronounced shift away from what has been a historically tight jobs market.

Technology vendors increasingly offering outcome-based pricing models

A growing number of technology providers are pricing their products and services based on...

Baton Rouge film sector ‘in a waiting game’ over writers’ strike

The Writers Guild of America’s strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has led to a nationwide slowdown in film production.