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Roundup: LSU investigation / State taxes / Vaccine eligibility
ICYMI: Top LSU officials conspired to cover up football coach Les Miles’ sexual harassment, then engaged in a yearslong retaliation against the employee who...
Roundup: MLK monument rededication / Oil rig count rises / Voting-restriction backers
Second try: Mayor Sharon Weston Broome and the Baton Rouge Area Foundation are planning to rededicate the recently restored Martin Luther King Jr. monument...
Graves: Louisiana seafood industry shortchanged in federal aid
Louisiana fishers and others in the industry will receive $12.5 million in federal aid to help offset financial losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Lounge and rooftop bar in former Hound Dogs space moving forward
Plans to redevelop the former Hound Dogs bar at the corner of Main and Seventh streets downtown as a lounge with a rooftop bar are moving forward.
Baton Rouge festivals are coming back, carefully, this fall
Louisiana’s warm weather festivals are as elemental as crawfish and azaleas, but they were among the first events to be canceled last spring with...
Biden’s corporate tax hike would hurt some companies more than others
Corporations had ample warning—an entire presidential campaign—that tax increases were coming. But that doesn’t take the sting out of President Biden’s proposal to raise...
St. George squabble headed to hearing later this spring
The two sides in the court battle over the incorporation of the prospective city of St. George have hit a snag in the ongoing...
Baton Rouge getting its first hostel
A Baton Rouge native and avid traveler is transforming a former day care center in Mid City into the area’s first hostel, The Hostel...
Former BRAC, New Schools executives form education nonprofit
Liz Smith and Adonica Duggin, both well-known for their work in economic development and education policy circles, have left their respective positions with the Baton Rouge Area Chamber and New Schools for Baton Rouge to form their own education nonprofit.
Nexus Louisiana and LSU launch program for aspiring entrepreneurs
Nexus Louisiana, in partnership with LSU, has announced a new initiative called Ignition to help aspiring entrepreneurs evaluate their business idea’s viability through customer...
Roundup: BRAC webinar / COVID-19 tests / Board of Regents
Small business aid: The Baton Rouge Area Chamber is hosting a webinar April 7 with Dawn Starns McVea, senior state director for the NFIB....
Viet-Cajun crawfish growing in popularity at Baton Rouge restaurants
Crawfish season is in full swing right about now, with backyard boilers ready to go for Easter weekend, and crawfish buffs scarfing down trays...
The Purple Cow expanding with Denham Springs store
The Purple Cow, the thrift store operated by The Christian Outreach Center of Baton Rouge, is expanding with a location in Denham Springs.
Brian Sleeth,...
LSU board will hold rare Saturday meeting April 10
The LSU Board of Supervisors has pushed up its regularly scheduled April 30 meeting by nearly three weeks—to April 10, a Saturday—giving rise to...
Roundup: EBR schools / Chicken Salad Chick / Brookwood Properties
Eight additional days: East Baton Rouge Parish Schools Superintendent Sito Narcisse aims to have a “Smart Start” to the school year by beginning the...
BTR Jet unveils new FBO facility, hangar at airport
The Baton Rouge Jet Center is today unveiling a new, 6,600-square-foot fixed-based operator facility at the Baton Rouge Metro Airport, along with a 22,000-square-foot hangar.
US payrolls post biggest gain in six months
U.S. private employers in March hired the most number of workers in six months as more Americans got vaccinated against COVID-19, pushing the economy...
Louisiana to receive $110M in GOMESA funds
Louisiana and its parishes will receive more than $109.9 million for coastal restoration and hurricane protection projects through the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security...
Capital Region will get $300M from American Rescue Plan
A new report from the Baton Rouge Area Chamber looks at how the latest federal COVID-19 relief package, the American Rescue Plan, could benefit...
Audit: Louisiana near bottom in state support for colleges; student burden rises
A recent audit found that decreased state support for Louisiana public colleges and universities, and the subsequent fee hikes enacted by those institutions over...
