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The five most expensive homes on the Baton Rouge market
(So far in 2019)
The cold front that settled over the high-end Baton Rouge residential market following the 2016 August flood still hasn’t completely moved...
Design: Red Stick Social
Architect: DNA Workshop/Dyke Nelson Architecture
Contractor: Buquet & LeBlanc
Cost: $6 million
Completed: 2019
Use: Home to Red Stick Social, a 35,000-square-foot multipurpose entertainment venue offering 10 bowling lanes,...
Business Lunch: Sullivan’s Steakhouse
Earlier this year, Sullivan’s Steakhouse’s corporate office decided to bring back lunch service to several locations across the country where it had previously been...
Top 10 reasons why employees leave their jobs
It’s often said that employees don’t leave companies, they leave mangers. And to a certain extent, the Employee Engagement Report 2019 from The Predictive...
How to design a TED-caliber presentation
Delivering an engaging presentation can be a daunting task. Sure, as a presenter, posing a compelling message and mastering powerful delivery should be your...
3 ways to improve your company’s onboarding process
Often times, a company is so eager to fill a vacant position and get a new employee on the job that once a hire...
Entrepreneur: Natalie Ourso, Chad and Heather Carter
DRIVEN BY PAIN
After serving in Iraq, Army veteran Natalie Ourso struggled with PTSD and found herself on a plethora of medications. Struggling with unwanted...
Executive Spotlight: Al Moreau III
Position: President/CEO and physical therapist
Company: Moreau Physical Therapy
Age: 44
Family: Wife, Charlotte, and three children: Ava Grace (16), Adrian (14) and Luke (11)
Hometown: Baton Rouge,...
Hitting the RESET button on better Louisiana government
Though the business community scored some minor victories in the recent legislative session, re-election-facing lawmakers declined to tackle any of the really meaty issues...
Dom Peré stays true to his roots
Delivering millions of dollars worth of disaster recovery cargo to the most remote, typhoon-ravaged islands of Micronesia might sound like a swashbuckling, Treasure Island-esque task,...
New Waitr rules may put restaurant deliveries on hold
Since it launched in 2013, Louisiana-based Waitr has been a game changer in the regional dining sector, with many restaurants seeing substantial new sales...
Where is this shrimp from? Now you’ll know.
The next time you sit down to a shrimp po-boy or some crawfish étouffée in a Louisiana restaurant, you have the right to know...
Baton Rouge companies using virtual reality to train workforce
Imagine the immense responsibility on the shoulders of an 800-ton crane operator, installing two large, 150-foot-tall reactors along with a smaller one—weighing a combined...
Why layoff when you can ‘upskill’ existing workforce?
Wanting to meet fast-changing business needs without wasting money and time recruiting new employees, Turner Industries is among many Baton Rouge companies focusing its...
The Capital Region’s Top 100 private companies
As has been the case every year since 1995 but one, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana tops the annual rankings of Top...
JR Ball: Perhaps Baton Rouge could use Batman to fight crime
Eight unrelated shootings in East Baton Rouge Parish over 10 days in late June left a senseless and bloody trail of bodies. Four lives...
Riegel: Louisiana’s role in the immigration debate
The immigration debate raging across the country may seem somewhat removed from us here in Louisiana, where the biggest threat to our southern border...
Publisher: Gov. John Bel Edwards is no conservative
If you look up John Bel Edwards on Wikipedia, it describes the governor as a “conservative Democrat.” Someone should correct that. Sure, as we...
Development growth rises flood concerns in Ascension, Livingston
Decades ago, as the nation’s longest desegregation case dragged on in East Baton Rouge Parish schools, families began flocking to the lower housing cost...
How business fared during the Louisiana legislative session
No one had particularly lofty expectations for this year’s legislative session. It’s an election year, after all, which means lawmakers were reticent to do...
