Let’s set the agenda for parish elections
This fall you will go to the polls and decide who will lead our community for the next four years.
Sorting it out
Capital region providers are trying to prepare for full implementation of new health care rules amid a ‘dense fog' of uncertainty.
Testing FuturEBR
Officials derail the sale of land pegged for a key connecting corridor in the city-parish land-use plan.
The Bernhard case
A riveting new civil suit raises serious allegations about Louisiana’s entertainment industry tax credit program.
Death and taxes
A rush to beat the deadline for favorable estate provisions keeps Capital Region financial planners busy.
The budget mess
As the state House of Representatives takes up the budget this week, it’s been four years since lawmakers have seen a surplus. For new members, that bygone concept seems as mythical as the unicorn.
Reading, writing and leading
Parse the inflammatory rhetoric on the subjects of public education, school choice and independent districts, and what you are left with is this simple, inescapable conclusion: Few people, if any, are happy with the current state of academic affairs in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System.
Entrepreneur: Miles Holley
Miles Holley was looking for a new name for the stores he had been operating under the name Treads & Care Tire Co. Holley was partial to the name Skid Marks. While off-putting to some (check UrbanDictionary.com if you don't know why, although you might want to avoid Google Images), he felt the name was edgy and memorable, not to mention easy to spell.
Supersized
Baton Rouge, New Orleans and the Northshore set aside an entrenched rivalry to flex their combined political and economic muscle.
Shuttered hotel sells
The Comfort Suites Hotel on the east side of O’Neal Lane, just north of Interstate 12, has sold. The limited-service hotel had been closed. The property was owned by Divine Light (represented by Sukhdev Sandhu & Randeep Deol), which purchased it in 2004 for $3.1 million. It consists of a 63-room facility containing about 37,500 square feet.
