New eats: The owners of Bistro Byronz plan to open Flambée Café, a new tarte flambee concept, next week in Willow Grove, though an exact opening date has yet to be announced. Flambée Café will be located in building three in the Village at Willow Grove, developer Richard Carmouche’s planned unit development on Perkins Road between Bluebonnet Boulevard and Siegen lane. Carmouche is a member of the restaurant’s ownership team and is an investor in the Bistro Byronz location in Willow Grove. Tarte Flambée will be the centerpiece of Flambée Café’s menu, which also will feature sandwiches, fire-roasted Pots de Feu, French inspired salads and dessert flambées.
On air: Former WAFB-TV anchor Andre Moreau has joined Louisiana Public Broadcasting as managing editor and anchor of Louisiana: The State We’re In, a weekly statewide news magazine program. Moreau co-anchored the nightly news on WAFB for eight years before parting ways with the station in September. This spring, he became a guest anchor of The State We’re In, which airs on Fridays at 7 p.m. and on Sundays at 4:30 p.m. on LPB’s stations in Alexandria, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Monroe and Shreveport. The program provides in-depth coverage and analysis of issues impacting Louisiana. Read more.
Banking on it: House Republicans voted on Thursday to deliver on their promise to repeal Dodd-Frank. As NPR reports, former President Barack Obama signed the massive set of Wall Street regulations into law after the 2008 financial crisis. But in a near party-line vote, the House approved a bill, dubbed the Financial Choice Act, a roughly 600-page bill that scales back or eliminates many of the post-crisis banking rules. The legislation is the brainchild of House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas. “Dodd-Frank represents the greatest regulatory burden on our economy, more so than all the other Obama-era regulations combined,” Hensarling says. “There is a better way: Economic growth for all; bank bailouts for none.” Read more.
