Affordable: Baton Rouge was named one of the top 20 most affordable college towns by real estate website Move.org this week. Baton Rouge comes in at No. 20 on the list with Helena, Montana, at No.1. Move.org calculated its rankings by looking at cities with more than 15,000 people with at least one college and then calculated the cost of living in each city. See the full list.
Facelift: LA Wallet is already getting a major update after launching July 4. Release 1.3 includes some top user-requested features to make the first-ever digital license app more powerful and easier to use, according to an announcement from Envoc, the Baton Rouge-based software company behind the app. The newest functions are part of LA Wallet’s mission to make the app more widely and easily accepted by users, officials, and businesses as well as more secure for users. The digital license app was legalized after the passage of a bill by state Rep. Ted James, D-Baton Rouge in 2016. Read the full announcement.
By the barrel: New regulations to curb pollution from the world’s shipping fleet could lift crude prices by $4 a barrel when the measures come into effect in 2020, The Houston Chronicle reports. The increase comes from changes from the International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency, that are likely to stoke refiners’ demand for lower-sulfur crude while prompting some plants to run as hard as possible to maximize profits. Read the full story.
