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Scalise PAC holding $10,000 fundraiser at Disney later this month
U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise’s office is defending the congressman’s decision to hold a four-day fundraiser for his PAC later this month at Disney World’s...
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• More than 1.3 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, a historically high pace that shows that many employers are still laying...
White House taps Baton Rouge for one of three coronavirus surge testing sites
Baton Rouge’s four federally backed coronavirus surge testing sites kicked off this morning, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced this afternoon, as federal, state and...
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• Louisiana coronavirus cases topped 70,000 Wednesday, but hospitalizations dropped for the first time since June 27 for a rare bright spot in the...
BRAC’s economic indicator dashboard shows little improvement
The Baton Rouge Area Chamber today released its COVID-19 economic indicator dashboard that examines and assesses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the...
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• The U.S. reported about 60,000 new coronavirus cases, a single-day record, today with infections continuing to rise rapidly in states such as Florida...
University faculty eye fall semester with trepidation, uncertainty
With colleges and universities set to begin their fall semester in just six weeks or so, there are more questions than answers at this...
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• Louisiana reported a single-day COVID case surge of nearly 2,000 today, the fifth-highest total of the pandemic, while hospitalizations topped 1,000 for the...
Baton Rouge-area businesses receive $1B in PPP loans, but there are disparities
The Capital Region received some $1 billion in Paycheck Protection Program loans that support more than 128,000 jobs, according to an analysis released today...
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• Louisiana state Sen. Cleo Fields is asking the governing board of Louisiana's public schools to cancel football and other fall sports because of...
Deja vu: Some local employees back to working from home
The recent uptick in COVID-19 infections has prompted some employers that had reopened their offices in late May or early June to send workers...
Nearly a dozen Baton Rouge companies receive at least $5M from PPP
Eleven Baton Rouge-based companies received between $5 million and $10 million in Payroll Protection Program funds this spring, according to data made public today...
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• There were 1,161 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Louisiana today, according to WBRZ-TV. Eight more people have died, bringing total deaths to...
Is Waitr making a comeback? Preliminary Q2 results positive
After a tumultuous 12 months and several changes to its leadership team, Waitr appears to be stabilizing.
Net income for the company’s second quarter of...
YEABR going virtual for 2020-2021 program
The Young Entrepreneurs Academy of Baton Rouge is planning to go virtual when classes begin in September.
YEABR Executive Director Sarah Munson says the move...
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• Mayor Sharon Weston Broome announced the federal government is setting up four additional COVID-19 testing sites in East Baton Rouge Parish beginning Tuesday,...
LSU researchers study social media surrounding COVID-19
LSU researchers are studying how social media users share and learn information about COVID-19 to find the most effective way to share public health...
Under mask mandate, businesses to get three warnings before summons
It will be up to businesses, initially, to enforce Mayor Sharon Weston Broome’s new executive order mandating masks inside businesses for both employees and...
White House task force had urged facial covering mandate for EBR
While some in Baton Rouge’s more conservative and libertarian circles have pushed back against Mayor Sharon Weston Broome’s executive order requiring people to wear...
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• Louisiana on Wednesday recorded its largest daily coronavirus case spike since April. Nearly 2,100 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed and hospitalizations continued...
