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Roundup: Ed Orgeron / Federal funding / Tuesday MorningÂ
Coach O on Fox: LSU head football coach Ed Orgeron told Fox News on Wednesday that he "couldn't imagine" the effect on LSU's football...
Virus roundup … Â
• The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Louisiana climbed to about 38,500 in figures reported Wednesday, an increase of more than 400 from...
BREC named finalist for National Gold Medal Awards
BREC has been selected as a finalist for the 2020 National Gold Medal Awards for Excellence in Park and Recreation Management by the American...
Amedisys CEO is highest paid public company leader in Louisiana
The highest-paid CEO in Louisiana is Paul B. Kusserow, president and CEO of Amedisys, according to the results of the Associated Press’ annual CEO...
246-unit townhome development planned for The Grove
A development with 246 townhome lots is being planned within The Grove mixed-use development, near the intersection of The Grove and Mall of Louisiana...
Lewis Maintenance moving into Interline Avenue building
Lewis Maintenance, a Baton Rouge-based commercial maintenance firm, is moving into a building on Interline Avenue, next door to its sister company, Lewis Companies.Â
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LSU weighs adjusting fall schedule to avoid second outbreak
LSU might adjust its fall 2020 schedule to avoid a forecast surge in coronavirus cases, university leaders said this afternoon during a webinar hosted...
Virus roundup …Â
• Officials with Baton Rouge City Court say due to the ongoing threat of COVID-19 all traffic violations that do not involve an accident...
Airplane hangar fetches $3.1M in second sale in two years
An Orlando-based company purchased a nearly 15,000-square-foot airplane hangar at the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport for $3.1 million.Â
Signature Flight Support, reportedly the world’s largest...
Congress expected to vote for drastic changes to PPPÂ
Small businesses could soon see a rollback of several universally loathed measures attached to the original Paycheck Protection Program, the $669 billion loan and...
Roundup: State education superintendent / US home sales / Consumer confidenceÂ
Salary: Louisiana's new state education superintendent will receive a $285,000 salary under a pay plan approved today by state lawmakers. Cade Brumley, who has...
St. George transition district bill moving swiftly through Legislature
Though lawmakers said when they reconvened earlier this month they would only take up budgetary matters, among the bills making their way to final...
Reopening challenges: Test backlog makes data hard to interpret
While Jefferson and Orleans parishes were initial leaders in the state with the number of diagnosed cases of COVID-19, Steven Procopio, policy director at...
Louisiana’s jobless rate more than doubled in first full month of restrictionsÂ
Louisiana’s unemployment rate more than doubled during the first full month of coronavirus pandemic restrictions on business but was about the same as the...
BRPD launching Operation Safe Summer to target micro-areas in city
As the city approaches the summer months—when crime historically increases—Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul says the department is still trying to determine what...
Virus roundup … Â
• The Baton Rouge Area Chamber has released an interactive map of known COVID-19 test sites in the nine-parish Capital Region as part of...
Roundup: Oil prices / 3D printing research / Baton Rouge produce partnershipÂ
Looking up: In a sign that oil markets are returning to relative normality, the once yawning gap between the price of an actual physical...
Get to know Vinformatix’s Padma Vatsavai, a 2020 Influential Woman in Business
Technology in Baton Rouge was virtually nonexistent when Padma Vatsavai’s family moved south in 1999 for her husband’s job.
“The career path I designed for...
House GOP largely backing Gov. John Bel Edwards’ budget plan
House Republican leaders today started advancing a budget plan that largely mirrors Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards' proposal to use federal coronavirus aid to...
Local mortgage brokers do record volume in March, April
While some businesses have been struggling to hang on during the coronavirus crisis, mortgage brokers are not among them. Over the past two months,...
