As the world celebrates Women's History Month, the Louisiana Legislature is still a boys club for the most part, with fewer than one in five seats held by women, USA Today Network reports.
Baton Rouge resident Blaine Smith retired early from ExxonMobil in 1999 to focus on building homes, and it was the latter business that enabled him to invest more than $1 million with Stanford Trust.
As the warm weather encourages bountiful seafood harvests across south Louisiana, the Public Affairs Research Council for Louisiana is touting the seafood industry’s $2.4 billion annual impact on the state’s economy.
The labor forces of many industrial contractors in the Capital City are already maxed out and it could get a lot worse should an abundance of expected projects crank up later this year and into 2024.
Albert Fraenkel II, founder of Fraenkel Wholesale Furniture Co., an upholstery and mattress manufacturer and furniture distributor, died late last month. He was 94.