A period of transition: The owners of Harb’s Oasis on Coursey Boulevard are ceasing day-to-day operations of the business and will begin a liquidation sale of its inventory on Wednesday. Charbel and Ruth Harb, who founded the company in 1979, announced last year that they were putting the store and land up for sale. A new owner has yet to be found, and the business is still listed for sale. Ceasing day-to-day operations will allow the couple to partially retire, they say in a news release. Harb’s Oasis will continue as a landscape and water garden supply company.
Signing in support: Nearly 7,900 people have signed an online petition calling for the reinstatement of Dr. Anil Nanda as chair of LSU Health Sciences Center-Shreveport’s department of neurosurgery, the USA Today Network of Louisiana reports. The petition, addressed to LSU President F. King Alexander and Gov. John Bel Edwards, was launched Friday. Nanda was removed from his position last week by the medical school’s chancellor, G.E. Ghali. Critics have called Ghali’s decision a “personal attack” on Nanda. Read the full story.
Behavior analysis: The Nobel prize in economics has been awarded to Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago for research showing how people’s choices on economic matters are not always rational. Thaler is considered one of the founding fathers of behavioral economics, a field that shows that far from being the rational decision-makers described in economic theory, people often make choices that don’t serve their best interests. The Nobel committee says Thaler has provided a “more realistic analysis of how people think and behave when making economic decisions.” Read the full story.
