Anticipation: The waiting game to learn if Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy is entering the 2019 Louisiana governor’s race will continue a few days longer than expected. Kennedy intends to announce Monday whether he will challenge Democratic incumbent Gov. John Bel Edwards in next year’s election. That’s two days later than a prior deadline Kennedy set to release his decision. Spokesman Preston Robinson cited a change in Kennedy’s travel schedule as the reason for the delay. Read the full story.
Funding learning: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS today announced that Louisiana Public Broadcasting received an award of $175,000 to work with Knock Knock Children’s Museum, East Baton Rouge Early Childhood Community Network, and East Baton Rouge Parish Library. LPB is one of 14 public media stations nationwide to receive a grant, enabling it to partner with the organizations to maximize the impact of new PBS KIDS science- and literacy-based programming, mobile apps and digital games.
It’s urgent: Ochsner Health System will open an urgent care clinic next summer in Highland Park Marketplace, the commercial development at the corner of Highland and Old Perkins roads. The urgent care, Ochsner’s second in Baton Rouge, will occupy an 8,100-square-foot building next to the filled shopping center. “We’ve found there is plenty of demand for health care in this part of Baton Rouge,” says broker Bill Sanders of Beau Box Commercial Real Estate, who, along with Clay Furr, represented the owner. Michael Pou of the New Orleans-based Talbot Realty Group represented Ochsner.
