On the road again: Work to widen Interstates 10 and 12 in East Baton Rouge and Livingston parishes has resumed. The state Department of Transportation and Development had suspended construction on the interstates as Hurricane Isaac approached last week, to speed evacuation and help emergency workers. With activities beginning to return to normal, DOTD says it instructed construction contractors to resume work Wednesday. The widening project is expected to be complete by mid-2013.
Peer review: Entrepreneurial group SeNSE is still looking for companies to participate in its Sept. 25 Pitch Night event, at which selected companies get the chance to pitch their business and get feedback from a panel of experts and the audience. Companies who wish to participate can be at any stage in their development and from any industry. Get all the details and submit your company by Friday’s deadline here.
It’s a new path that we trod: Even with a hiring boom in the oil industry, there’s a bleak future for some jobs in the petroleum business. As The Houston Chronicle reports this morning, petroleum pump systems operators—those who control the flow of products through refineries—made the list of “America’s 10 Disappearing Jobs” compiled by 24/7 Wall St. It’s the highest-paid job on the financial news site’s list, pulling a median annual salary of $60,040 in 2010. Still, the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects 6,200 such jobs will be lost between 2010 and 2020, a 14% decline. Check out the complete list here.
Today’s poll question: Do you think the new Baton Rouge Area Violence Elimination initiative, or Project BRAVE—funded primarily with a $1.5 million federal grant—will reduce crime in the targeted 70805 ZIP code?
