Gameday drinks: LSU’s first season selling alcohol at home football games was a lucrative one for the university’s athletics department, WBRZ-TV reports. In the 2019 season, the department made $2.259 million in net revenue off beer and wine sales in public areas in Tiger Stadium. The more than 280,000 drinks, which don’t include sales in premium areas, were sold across seven home games in the regular season. Read the full story.
Information download: The Louisiana Technology Park’s lunch seminar on Thursday will feature Kenneth Anderson and Daniel Holt, directors for the Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute along with Todd Lowery, a director at NexusLA, who will give a crash course in using public and privately available information databases for business research and planning. Tickets for the 11:30 a.m. seminar are $10. More information and event registration are available online.
Unhealthy choices: One-quarter of American adults say they or a family member has put off treatment for a serious medical condition because of cost, according to data released this week by Gallup. That number is the highest it’s been in nearly three decades of polling, The Washington Post reports. An additional 8% have made the same choice for less serious ailments, the survey showed. That means a collective 33% of those polled have prioritized financial considerations over their health, tying the high set in 2014. Read the full story.
