Sidelined by snow: A tour highlighting new development in Old South Baton Rouge has been postponed to Friday, Jan. 12, due to weather. The tour was supposed to take place from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. today, but the threat of snow—which began falling on Baton Rouge early this morning—led organizers to postpone it.
On shaky ground: The developer of Shreveport’s new aquarium no longer manages the city’s financially troubled Sci-Port Discovery Center, The Shreveport Times reports. Planet Aqua Group agreed to manage the museum in August. Now, the chairman of Sci-Port’s board says the parties have ended their relationship so Planet Aqua, which appears to be experiencing financial difficulties as well, can focus on the aquarium. Subcontractors who remodeled the city-owned Barnwell Center to house the aquarium have filed liens totaling about $262,000, alleging they have not been paid for their work on the project. Read more.
Seeing red: Elon Musk is daring Boeing to beat him to Mars, Fortune reports. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO posted a challenge on Twitter after Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg said on Thursday that his aerospace giant would transport the first humans to Mars. “Eventually we’re going to go Mars and I firmly believe the first person that sets foot on Mars will get there on a Boeing rocket,” Muilenburg told CNBC’s Jim Cramer. Musk, responding to a tweet linking to a Fortune article about Muilenburg’s prediction, simply wrote: “Do it.” Read more.
