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Virus roundup …
• U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin remained far from agreement in several key areas on new COVID-19 relief. Congressional...
Roundup: Ochsner Health System / Gulf States expansion / Thanksgiving retail
Expanding: Effective today, Lafayette General Health has joined the Ochsner Health System. Lafayette General Health will now be known as Ochsner Lafayette General. Now...
State lawmakers push for changes in how legislation’s cost is calculated
Louisiana legislative leaders this summer ousted John Carpenter, head of the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Office, and replaced him with Christopher Keaton, a veteran fiscal...
Louisiana’s emergency rental aid program gets streamlined
The Louisiana Housing Corporation said it has streamlined the application for emergency rental aid for people impacted by the coronavirus outbreak, trying to speed...
Haas Automation, Louisiana launch manufacturing training partnership
Haas Automation Inc. and Gov. John Bel Edwards today announced a partnership in which Louisiana will become the first state to install Haas 5-axis...
Reopening of EBR bars expected to get Metro Council greenlight
The Metro Council is expected to give bar owners the OK to reopen their establishments at a special meeting later this afternoon.
Earlier today, the...
CF Industries plans $41.4M investment in Ascension Parish
CF Industries President and CEO Tony Will and the governor’s office today announced the company will make a $41.4 million capital investment to enhance...
Virus roundup …
• The Louisiana Department of Health reported 452 new COVID-19 cases today and 13 additional deaths.
• Louisiana's public health officer forecast another COVID-19 spike...
Signs indicate housing market boom could last for years
Even after reaching all-time high average prices and sales numbers not seen since the height of the 2000s boom, the housing market still has...
Roundup: Lod Cook dies / Clay Higgins’ vote / Home purchases
Industry leader: Louisiana businessman and philanthropist Lodwrick 'Lod' Cook has died at 92, according to a Tuesday evening post on his grandson's Facebook account ...
Treasury aims to begin approving PPP forgiveness requests this week
The Treasury Department said Tuesday it would begin forgiving loans granted to small business owners under the Paycheck Protection Program, following banks’ and borrowers’...
BRAC to close PPE Marketplace, transition it to sell wider range of office supplies
The Baton Rouge Area Chamber today announced the closure of its PPE Marketplace on Oct. 1, at which point the marketplace will transition from a strictly PPE operation to include broader office supplies.
Sherwood Forest to install and connect cameras to Baton Rouge crime center
The Sherwood Forest Crime Prevention District is partnering with the Baton Rouge Police Department to connect its new district cameras to the Real Time Crime Center.
Pandemic already changing world’s cityscapes, public spaces
While planners, thinkers and policymakers are talking a lot these days about how the COVID-19 pandemic will change the way we design and build our communities in the future, some of those changes are already taking place, say experts, who spoke at the opening session today of the Center for Planning Excellence’s 2020 Virtual Smart Growth Summit.
Virus roundup …
• The state health department reported 553 new COVID-19 cases today and 10 additional deaths.
• State Treasurer John Schroder announced today that the Main...
In holding pattern, small businesses agonize over loan forgiveness
The Paycheck Protection Program pumped $525 billion in forgivable loans to small businesses from early April through early August.
One reason the PPP was so...
Roundup: Bridge Center hiring / Consumer confidence / Hard seltzer
Job fair: The Bridge Center for Hope will hold a job fair hosted by RI International (the Bridge Center’s selected service provider). The crisis...
Housing aid for Louisiana renters facing eviction slow to be disbursed
A $24 million rental aid program Gov. John Bel Edwards announced in July for people facing eviction because of coronavirus-related lost wages has committed...
‘Total worker health’ initiative focuses on an employee’s overall well-being
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health coined the term “total worker health” a number of years ago, but it’s largely unrecognized by...
BRAC dashboard shows positive economic trends
The Baton Rouge Area Chamber today released its COVID-19 economic indicator dashboard, a report that examines the impact of the pandemic on the regional...
