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How the pandemic helped the retail industry

The pandemic was predicted to deliver a heavy blow to retailers, but instead, some...

CK Office Park on Perkins sells for $7M

CK Office Park at 17170 Perkins Road was bought by Baton Rouge-based Honor Properties LLC for $7 million on Wednesday.

This LSU building’s design is raking in awards two decades after it was completed

The sunlit corridors, spacious lecture hall and streamlined study library of the LSU Cox Communications Academic Center for Student Athletes and Bo Campbell Auditorium dominate the corner of North Stadium and Field House drives just as they have since their completed renovation in 2002. But the building—this year’s recipient of the National College Learning Center Association’s President’s Outstanding Learning Center Award for Special Populations—is more than a practical means to help athletes hit the books.

‘LaPolitics’: House speaker makes sweeping committee leadership changes

Without advance warning or even a press release, House Speaker Clay Schexnayder last night named new chairs for roughly one-third of the standing committees in the Legislature's lower chamber. While the appointments made by the GOP speaker were prompted by previously known vacancies, they nonetheless represent the most sweeping midterm leadership changes the House has seen in recent memory.

There is no ‘silver bullet’ solution for flood problems

Major public projects cannot be relied upon exclusively to mitigate flood risk, speakers said during Thursday’s closing session of the Center for Planning Excellence’s Smart Growth Summit.

Why the Metro Council blocked a proposed development in the flood zone

A proposed development of 60 single-family homes off of Burbank Drive called Maple Cove, which was to be built completely in a flood zone, was removed from the Metro Council agenda Wednesday after it was also blocked by the Planning Commission in September.

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If it were up to fans, LSU football players would take home $220,000 a year

College sports fans believe that, on average, NCAA football players should receive a yearly salary of $170,815—if the Supreme Court’s landmark decision earlier this year hadn’t categorically ruled out salaries for college athletes. However, LSU fans polled thought the salaries should be even higher, at $219,778.