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Check out what’s brewing at Baton Rouge’s coffee shops 

But over the last 20 years, this backdrop of coffee love has expanded in Baton Rouge to include numerous third-wave specialty cafes—shops that elevate the experience with single-sourced beans, meticulous roasting and creative mixology normally reserved for craft cocktails.

Two years after forming committee, Baton Rouge still lacks short-term rental ordinance

Efforts to draft a new ordinance governing short-term rentals in Baton Rouge are moving forward but at something of a snail’s pace.

Pelican Lakes seeking to add 115 single-family lots

The developers of Pelican Lakes are seeking approval to add 115 new, single-family lots to their Burbank Drive development, which, if approved by the Planning Commission, would increase the total number of lots to 717.

Video game idea born at St. Joseph’s Academy leads to women-led business

An all-women video game design studio hopes to bring a concept first hatched in a St. Joseph’s Academy classroom to the marketplace. 

Restaurant industry pushing Congress for $60B in federal aid

Restaurant industry lobbyists are asking Congress for $60 billion in federal aid in its...

‘LaPolitics’: Precinct adjustments coming ahead of elections

Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin spent the past couple of weeks touring parishes affected...
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How AGs like Jeff Landry serve as a new check on presidential power 

State attorneys general have filed more than a dozen joint lawsuits against President Joe Biden’s administration this year, marking a shift in how U.S. presidential decisions are challenged that will probably stick around, according to Governing.

Remote-work technology follows employees back to the office 

Workers across the country are getting dressed up and commuting into the office after months of doing their jobs from home—only to be forced to attend Zoom meetings and send Slack messages from their desk as if they’d never left their living rooms because the delta variant of coronavirus is spreading fast. 

A closer look at how FEMA’s new flood risk rating system will affect Baton Rouge

According to a breakdown by ZIP code, the majority of National Flood Insurance Program policyholders in East Baton Rouge Parish, more than 50%, will see their rates decrease, probably by just a few dollars per month.

Soaring home prices spark surge in US homeowner equity growth

Soaring home prices have pushed up average homeowner equity growth to the highest level in more than a decade, though recent signs of a cooling U.S. housing market point to more moderate gains in the second half of the year.