Mark your calendar: The 25th annual Providence Corporate Cup has been set for Saturday, March 23, in Baton Rouge. This year, the annual 5K run and walk raised $15,000 each for the Mid City Redevelopment Alliance and Big Buddy. More than 1,500 runners and 100 companies participated in the 2012 event, the complete results of which can be found here.
Tigers to the top: LSU’s Department of Finance is featured in the November issue of Financial Planning in an article focusing on “25 Great Schools for Future Financial Planners.” The article highlights LSU’s newly created undergraduate financial planning specialization as well as its graduate financial planning specialization. “Our story is not a ranking—it’s comprised of many of the schools on students’ short lists,” the magazine notes. Check it out here.
Where the rubber meets the road: A federal appeals court has upheld, at least preliminarily, the validity of all the laws the New Orleans City Council passed early this year setting out new rules for the city’s taxicab industry, The Times-Picayune reports. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the city can enforce all of the new rules. The full story is here.
Just before the dawn: Robert Bork, the U.S. judge and legal scholar whose nomination to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 set off a battle for the judiciary that lived on long after the U.S. Senate rejected him, has died. He was 85. He died this morning at Virginia Medical Center in Arlington, according to his son, Robert Bork Jr. The cause was heart disease. Bloomberg has the full story here.
