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• The Baton Rouge Area Chamber is hosting three webinars next week for businesses. Tuesday’s webcast will focus on accounting practices for PPP loan...
LSU Alumni Association selects new president and CEO
The LSU Alumni Association Board of Directors today announced that Gordon Monk has been named president and CEO of the association effective immediately.
Monk has...
After coronavirus, air travel will never be the same
Air travel after the coronavirus will look and feel a lot different from the last time you got a boarding pass scanned—and masks and...
Restaurants gearing up for outdoor seating beginning Friday
Local restaurants with outdoor seating are gearing up to reopen their outdoor tables Friday when the restrictions that shuttered eateries around the state six...
Crawford House coming down, one year after preservationists thought they’d saved it
Work crews today began demolishing the Crawford House in Webb Park, almost exactly one year after preservationists thought they had saved the iconic example...
Fed expands loan offerings, eligibility for $600B Main Street Lending Program
The Federal Reserve will expand loan offerings and qualification rules for its Main Street Lending Program, allowing larger businesses to participate and relaxing minimum-loan...
Legislative task force explores tax reforms, ITEP rollbacks to stimulate economy
With the Legislature poised to return to its regular session early next week, a legislative task force working on recommendations for restarting the economy...
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• Accounting firm Albin, Randall and Bennett has created a Paycheck Protection Program loan forgiveness worksheet to help businesses assess and track what they...
Roundup: LSU Foundation / FAA grants / Kids’ Orchestra
Layoffs: The LSU Foundation today notified 40 of its approximately140 employees they will be laid off. The workforce reduction, which represents 30% of the...
LSU Foundation to issue pink slips Thursday
The LSU Foundation will lay off a “substantial” number of its 140 employees Thursday morning, in what is the latest example of the toll...
Some GOP lawmakers consider pushing to overturn Gov. Edwards’ mandate
A coalition of conservative Republican lawmakers in the state Legislature, frustrated by Gov. John Bel Edwards’ extension of the stay-at-home order for at least...
US Chamber: Businesses have a lot to think about as they prepare to reopen
While businesses that must remain shuttered under the two-week extension of the governor’s stay-at-home order may be frustrated by their inability to get back...
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• U.S. Rep. Garret Graves today announced Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District is set to receive $1,333,817 in CARES Act Supplemental Public Housing Operating Funds...
Roundup: Fed holds rates steady / Movie dispute / Waitr expansion
Interest rates: The Federal Reserve signaled today it will keep its key short-term interest rate near zero for the foreseeable future as part of...
‘We’re not essential,’ say Louisiana lawmakers opposed to reconvening May 4
Members of the legislative black and Democratic caucuses are pushing back against the decision of the Legislature’s Republican leadership to reconvene May 4.
Louisiana has...
AGC: Without federal stimulus dollars, coronavirus exacerbating Louisiana’s construction lull
Louisiana construction industry officials are joining the national Associated General Contractors in calling for the fourth federal stimulus package to help fund major infrastructure...
Waitr regains Nasdaq compliance
Waitr filed documentation with the SEC today indicating that two new members were appointed to its board of the directors, bringing the Lafayette-based company...
Alford: Louisiana parishes are going broke
If neither you, your business nor your home parish or city are struggling financially in the wake of the initial COVID-19 outbreak, consider yourself...
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• Louisiana voters will have more early voting time and expanded mail-in balloting options in the July and August elections because of the coronavirus...
Roundup: UFO evidence? / Universal films / UPS profits
Pentagon videos: The Pentagon has declassified three previously leaked top secret U.S. Navy videos that show "unexplained aerial phenomena," which some have claimed was...
