Politics & Policy

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

• The Baton Rouge Area Chamber has released an interactive map of known COVID-19...

• By enabling states to offer more generous unemployment benefits, and by enacting a...

• About 28,800 Louisiana residents filed for unemployment last week—more than 12 times as...

The Baton Rouge Metro Airport is beginning to see an increase in air travel,...

Nearly one week into the phased reopening that has allowed restaurants to resume limited...

As of May 12, about 1.9 million Louisiana residents—or 55.7% of adults statewide responding...

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• More than 2.4 million people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week in...

With the bars still closed and many people continuing to practice social distancing measures,...

While the East Baton Rouge Parish tax assessor is largely done with 2020 reassessments,...

• Public health officials in some states are accused of bungling coronavirus infection statistics or...

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