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A look at the contenders in this year’s BREW pitch competition
Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week kicks off with a Town Square block party next Monday and builds to Friday’s pitch competition, when four companies vie for $100,000 in angel investment.
LSU’s decades-old faculty governance problem may get a virtual solution
LSU faculty governance is paralyzed by a decades-old oversight system, but a new legislative proposal has stumbled upon a potential solution.
Roundup: Storming the field / Economic predictions / Savings rates
Harsher punishment: The Southeastern Conference is looking at possibly taking away home games or forcing forfeiture for teams whose fans storm the field, rather...
Business leaders’ tone deaf comments are going viral
Several business leaders went viral this week after their attempts at encouragement were received by employees as vitriolic and tone deaf, Axios reports.
Orion Instruments will lay off 73 workers by the end of the year
Baton Rouge-based Orion Instruments will lay off 73 employees by the end of 2023, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filed with...
Senate committee will begin debating tax proposals on Monday
Several of the tax proposals filed in the state Senate will be taken up by the Senate’s Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee on Monday as legislators gear up to make the most of the odd-numbered year that allows them to tackle tax issues.
Capital Region gains 2,700 jobs in March
The Capital Region saw the most job growth in March of any of the state's nine metropolitan statistical areas, according to the latest seasonally...
With rain in the forecast, Live After Five moving indoors to The Tunnel
The second Live After Five concert for the spring season has been moved indoors thanks to expectations of bad weather, the Downtown Business Association...
Roundup: Banking oversight / Insulin lawsuit / LSU police chief
New tools: The Treasury Department’s risk oversight arm today proposed new tools for spotting issues in the U.S. financial system, more than a month...
Louisiana’s combined local and state sales tax remains the nation’s highest
Louisianans are paying a bigger percentage of sales tax than anyone else in the U.S. at nearly 10%
The Face Place medical spa opens on Perkins Road
New medical spa The Face Place opened in the Garden District on Perkins Road last month, but its owners don’t want it to feel like a doctor’s office.
New medical spa The Face Place opened in the Garden District on Perkins Road last month, but its owners don’t want it to feel like a doctor’s office.
How to communicate difficult news with your team
It’s natural to want to dodge the tough work of sharing bad news with your team at work.
After all, who wants to tell a...
Postlethwaite & Netterville CEO says acquisition is all about ‘opportunity’
Company executives say the deal allowing for Baton Rouge-based Postlethwaite & Netterville to be acquired by New York-based EisnerAmper was centered around providing more services.
Capital Region sees more foreclosure activity than national average
Foreclosure filings were more common in the Baton Rouge area in March than in the nation as a whole, new data shows.
Roundup: 225GIVES / US home sales / Mike Lindell
Donate now: Early giving for the Capital Area United Way’s third 225GIVES fundraiser opened today and will run through May 3 in advance of...
Louisiana workers’ pay has risen sharply in recent months
Louisiana workers saw their median annual wages reach $54,300 in March—the highest since at least October 2020—according to research from the ADP Research Institute.
Small businesses rallying against Biden’s proposed tax hikes
More than 11,000 small business leaders have rallied together in a petition to protest the tax hikes proposed in President Joe Biden's latest proposed budget.
Eight Capital Region small businesses chosen for Shell’s accelerator program
A handful of entrepreneurs from the Capital Region have been selected to take part in Shell's business accelerator program, the company announced today.
Chuck Spicer says leading OLOL has reignited his intellectual curiosity
Chuck Spicer, Baton Rouge market president for Our Lady of the Lake Health, says that stepping into his role last fall has reignited his intellectual curiosity.
Judge moves up trial date for Stanford victims’ suit against state agency
More than 900 victims of Allen Stanford’s multibillion dollar fraud who are suing a state agency won’t have to wait quite as long as first thought for their day in court.
