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Louisiana smokable medical marijuana bill advances
A bid to expand Louisiana's medical marijuana program to allow patients to smoke cannabis sailed through its first review Thursday, as a once-contentious program...
Baton Rouge lawmakers identify funding source for new Mississippi River bridge
A bill filed today by three members of the Capital Region delegation would extend a .45-cent sales tax and dedicate the money, in part,...
Franklin Associates to open special events center in May
The historic Mid City building that local consulting firm Franklin Associates is transforming into a conference and special events center is slated to open in May.
DEQ gives Baton Rouge 90 days to address stormwater plan problems
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality has given Baton Rouge until mid-July to correct dozens of problems related to the way it monitors stormwater...
Roundup: COVID-19 tax incentive / P&G raises prices / Shots for shots
Vaccine PTO: The White House is trying to overcome diminishing demand for COVID-19 shots by offering businesses a tax incentive to give employees paid...
Self-employed would get a bigger slice of remaining PPP under new bill
With just over $50 billion still available in the Paycheck Protection Program, Senate lawmakers this week introduced a new bill that would make good...
Yelp: More than a half-million new businesses opened this past year
More than 500,000 new businesses opened across the U.S. in the past year, new data from Yelp shows, as the economy recovered from the...
Mandatory kindergarten could be coming to Louisiana
A bill that would make kindergarten mandatory in Louisiana cleared its first hurdle today when the Senate Education Committee moved it forward after at...
Bills crafted in response to LSU Title IX scandals advance in state Senate
Louisiana state senators today started moving legislation prompted by the sexual misconduct scandals at LSU, measures aimed at tightening rules for how colleges must...
LSU Presidential Search Committee to meet; Emmert’s name resurfaces
The LSU Presidential Search Committee will meet Wednesday afternoon to begin discussing the pool of applicants for the university’s top job.
That pool shrunk by...
Fraught relationship persists between restaurants, delivery companies
Diners got used to delivery during the pandemic, and the habit may stick around for the foreseeable future. But restaurants and delivery companies remain uneasy partners, haggling over fees and struggling to make the service profitable for each other, the Associated Press reports.
ExxonMobil proposes $100B carbon capture hub, but there’s a catch
ExxonMobil Corp. has proposed a giant, $100 billion hub to capture carbon dioxide emissions along the Texas Gulf Coast but warns that government funding...
Roundup: H2-B worker visas / Pipeline safety / Free Wi-Fi for NOLA
Number to rise: President Joe Biden's administration today announced an increase in the number of temporary seasonal workers who will be allowed to work...
State sales tax collection overhaul advances to House floor
Another Louisiana House committee has endorsed changing the state constitution to centralize sales tax collection.
The committee focused on civil law and procedure unanimously agreed...
Louisiana housing agency leader faces sexual harassment claims
The leader of the state's affordable housing agency has been suspended while he's being investigated for allegations that he sexually harassed an employee, Gov....
‘Business Report’ will celebrate 2021 Influential Women in Business on May 19
Business Report will celebrate the nine 2021 Influential Women in Business at a luncheon scheduled for May 19.
Doors open at 11 a.m.; the luncheon...
Global supply chain disruptions impacting local businesses
While many sectors of the economy have bounced back since the worst of the pandemic, problems caused by COVID-19 are continuing to disrupt global supply chains and local businesses are feeling the effects.
Bill would undo ethics charge on industry appointees to Capital Area Groundwater Conservation Commission
A Senate committee will take up a bill Tuesday that would allow industrial companies to nominate their employees to the Capital Area Groundwater Conservation Commission, an 18-member volunteer panel that regulates the Southern Hills Aquifer. The aquifer supplies Baton Rouge's fresh drinking water and provides area industrial plants with water for their operations.
Roundup: Ignition business accelerator / LSU COVID-19 relief / Parler is back
Last day: Today is the last day to apply to be a part of Nexus Louisiana and LSU’s new Ignition accelerator, which helps entrepreneurs...
Federal government now allows PPP loans to borrowers in bankruptcy
The federal government has quietly reversed course on a policy that had kept thousands of businesses from applying for pandemic economic aid, with only...
