Politics & Policy

Government decisions, legislation, elections, and public policy shaping business and daily life across the Baton Rouge region and Louisiana.

Why are McDonald’s ice cream machines always broken? The FTC is on the case

An icy McFlurry or milkshake from one of the dozen or so McDonald’s locations...

Recovery from Ida uneven across Louisiana 

Four days after Hurricane Ida struck, the storm's aftermath—and progress in recovering from it—are...

Nearly three-fourths of Capital Region still without power

More than 72% of the Capital Region is still without power three days after Hurricane Ida made landfall, including 54% of the some 216,000 customers in East Baton Rouge Parish.

States that cut federal jobless benefits early saw little change in job growth

States that halted the boosted federal unemployment benefits prior to their deadline have so...

Should Louisiana’s power transmission lines be underground? 

While the levee systems improvements made after Hurricane Katrina held up to flooding, electricity...

EBR debris removal plan activated; regular trash pickup resumes

Mayor Sharon Weston Broome today announced the activation of the parish’s emergency debris removal...
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Louisiana could be a ‘pandemic tinderbox’ in Hurricane Ida’s wake 

Experts are concerned that Hurricane Ida's impact will worsen the spread of COVID-19 in...

Regulators reject key part of railroad deal tied to BR passenger rail  

Canadian National’s $33.6 billion deal to acquire Kansas City Southern railroad is in jeopardy...

More than half of Baton Rouge still without power 

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber has been tracking all available data related to power...

Port Fourchon, refineries out for weeks, raising short- and long-term questions

When Hurricane Ida blasted ashore, its 150 mile per hour winds not only laid waste to southeast Louisiana but to the nation’s fossil fuel infrastructure.
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