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What businesses need to know as COVID cases rise
Every time you think it's safe to hatch plans and put COVID-19 behind you, another variant crops up to spoil your efforts.
This time it's...
Roundup: Atchafalaya bridge cameras / BRAC symposium / Investigating Amazon
Targeting speeders: The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development will begin installing new signs along the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge on Friday. According to DOTD,...
Basketball training center opening this fall on Airline
Optimal Basketball LLC, a new basketball training center, will open this fall on Airline Highway near The Little Village restaurant, according to the facility’s...
Pondering $10M campaign, Capital Area United Way surveys donors
Capital Area United Way is asking donors for feedback about a potential $10 million fundraising campaign.
Calucem plans $35M specialty cement facility
Specialty cement manufacturer Calucem will enter the U.S. market by developing a $35 million manufacturing facility in New Orleans East, GNO Inc. announced. Calucem,...
Credit card debt surges as inflation spurs uptick in borrowing
Credit card debt soared in the U.S. from April through June as Americans borrowed billions of dollars to continue spending in the face of...
Instagram’s walking back of changes shows failure isn’t always the enemy
For the second time in seven days, Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, addressed the controversy around some of the recent changes to the...
Louisiana will get additional $134M in federal funding for road projects
Louisiana is set to receive an additional $134 million in federal funding for infrastructure improvements as part of a new Federal Highway Administration program...
Insurance Commissioner Donelon seeks state funding to lure property insurers
Lawmakers this year created, but did not fund, an incentive program meant to lure more property insurance companies to write policies in Louisiana.
Optimism abounds at LSU as Brian Kelly era set to begin
There really is no place quite like Louisiana, and its most dynamic element is the people—loud, proud and passionate
Roundup: I-10 closure / European Wax Center / US manufacturing
Closed ramp: The Interstate 10 eastbound ramp at the Interstate 12 split will be closed from 11 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 4, through 5...
Running a generator will cost more this hurricane season
The last two hurricane seasons left swaths of Louisiana without power for weeks at a time, and with gas prices well above what they...
Economic uncertainties have CFOs preparing to cut costs, delay projects
Finance chiefs are confronting the uncertain economic outlook with plans to trim variable costs and delay projects, while continuing to raise prices to offset...
Benny’s buys land next to Rouses in Zachary for car wash
Benny’s has paid $2 million for about 12 acres next to the Rouses Market on Church Street in Zachary.
LSU-area apartments sell to New York-based investor
Four Gaslite apartment complexes near the LSU campus have sold, according to documents filed with the East Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of Court’s Office.
Baton Rouge’s not seasonally adjusted unemployment increases to 4.2%
The Louisiana Workforce Commission today announced that Baton Rouge's not seasonally adjusted unemployment rate hit 4.2% in June.
While that rate is a full percentage...
Should Louisiana end Entergy’s monopoly?
Like other investor-owned utilities, Entergy Louisiana is a for-profit monopoly. No matter how upset their customers get, they can’t take their business elsewhere.
Employees increasingly paying larger share of their medical costs
The growth of high-deductible health plans over the past decade led to workers with employer-sponsored coverage paying a larger share, on average, of their...
More than half of small business owners say they sacrifice salary at times
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of small business owners say they have at some point not paid themselves a salary in order to keep their small...
Smalls Sliders gets capital investment as it prepares to expand franchising
Smalls Sliders today announced it has secured an equity investment from 10 Point Capital, a firm that specializes in franchising.
