Rain check: The LSU Flores MBA Alumni Association says the alumni social slated to take place this evening at the new E. J. Ourso Business Education Complex has been canceled. The event will be held later this summer, the association says, on a date to be determined. Full details are available here.
A new leash on life: The Red River Waterway Commission has approved $280,000 for fencing, water lines and fountains, and other facilities for a dog park on Shreveport’s riverfront. The money, which also would pay for benches, a pavilion, signs, waste stations and trash receptacles, depends on a cooperative endeavor agreement with Shreveport and, possibly, the Caddo Commission. “I’m on cloud nine,” says Cynthia Keith of the Shreveport Dog Park Alliance, which has raised $35,000 for a dog park at Hamel Memorial Park. The Shreveport Times has the full story here.
Smoke ’em if you got ’em: As federal regulators weigh standards for the entire tobacco industry, some in the cigar world are pushing to make sure their livelihoods and the products they enjoy don’t go up in smoke. The premium cigar industry argues any number of the potential restrictions imposed by the Food and Drug Administration—which has expressed its intention to regulate cigars under a 2009 law that gave it authority over the tobacco industry—could hurt both cigar makers and specialty tobacco stores. In addition, the industry says, the range of sizes and shapes of cigars makes across-the-board standards almost impossible. Read the full story here.
