Serving it up: As part of the 26th annual Cajun Classic Wheelchair Tennis Tournament that kicks off today and runs through Sunday, Mayor Kip Holden is set to partake in an exhibition match with national, regional and state tennis officials. The match is set for noon on Saturday. This year’s tournament is being held at the Paula G. Manship YMCA Lamar Tennis Center, and it brings the largest field of players in its history: 125 players from 18 countries and 29 states, including 17 of the world’s top 10 professionals and eight amateurs from the Baton Rouge area. Admission for all tournament events is free. Get complete details.
Here it is: CenturyLink officials said at a ribbon cutting for the firm’s new 300,000-square-foot technology center in Monroe on Tuesday that the facility is a symbol of the company’s future. “We’re transforming the company from one that provides dial-tone telephone service to a company providing strategic network services and cloud hosting and IT services,” CenturyLink CEO Glen Post said during a grand opening of the center. “I really believe this company will change the world of technology through work done here.” The News-Star has the full story.
The rocky road: Despite criticism, Gov. Bobby Jindal proposes to divert even larger sums of state gasoline tax revenue away from road work next year to instead pay for state police operations. The Associated Press reports lawmakers on the House Appropriations Committee learned Tuesday that Jindal’s budget recommendation for the fiscal year that begins July 1 would shift $72 million in gas tax money to cover state trooper costs, an increase of more than $5 million over this year. That would boost the amount of money steered away from road and bridge work to $313 million over Jindal’s two terms in office, according to data from House budget analyst Daniel Waguespack. Read the full story.
