Last call: The final public meeting related to the search for the next superintendent for the East Baton Rouge Parish School System will be today at 6 p.m. at Woodlawn High School. Feedback collected at the meetings will be used to create a job description used by JG Consulting, a Texas-based executive search firm, to secure candidates to replace outgoing Superintendent Warren Drake. JG Consulting is also hosting an online survey for community input here.
Best care: Our Lady of the Lake Ascension in Gonzalez was named a top general hospital nationally by The Leapfrog Group, the hospital announced today. The Leapfrog Group is a national health care watchdog organization.
Tax rates: In the first year of the 2017 law, the amount corporations paid in federal taxes on their incomes—their “effective rate”—was 11.3% on average, The Washington Post reports. That’s possibly the lowest level in more than three decades, according to a report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning think tank. From 2008 to 2015, under the previous tax code, the corporations’ effective rate was about 21%, according to the ITEP’s prior research. Read the full story.
