Federal fracking study won't be done until 2016
An Environmental Protection Agency official has informed a fracking conference in Ohio that a study of the threat to drinking water from the shale-drilling process won't be completed until 2016. That's the word from Jeanne Briskin, coordinator of...
DATE: June 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Launch date for new airline at BTR remains uncertain
Elite Airways, the charter-service airline that plans to begin regular scheduled service to and from Baton Rouge later this summer, appears to be running behind with its startup date. Originally the Maine-based airline, which has an operations...
DATE: June 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Q&A with Matt Schwartz
Matt Schwartz has four jobs. You might have seen at GoYaYa's, serving up crepes; or trying to find that one song for a film at Fusion Media Studios. Once a week, he also trades a few hours of work at Yoga Bliss for free classes.
DATE: June 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: What's the Big Picture
Barksdale furloughs almost 1,400 workers
Barksdale Air Force Base officials say the nation's premier bomber base has issued 1,372 furlough letters to Department of Defense civilians working there, reports The Shreveport Times. The furloughs, similar to those used in recent years by...
DATE: June 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
The $50 billion boom
Paul Stratford spent a dozen years of his career working for ExxonMobil in Singapore. North American manufacturing was stagnant, and Southeast Asia was the place to be.
DATE: June 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: Current Issue
Growth of college baseball bittersweet for Jumbo Sports founder
When former LSU pitcher Ronnie Rantz started the Jumbo Sports Network in the late 1990s, college baseball was rarely seen on TV. Rantz and his partners have since broadcast hundreds of regular season and postseason games. But now, ESPN owns the...
DATE: June 07, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Exxon responds to NPR report critical of B.R. refinery
Officials from ExxonMobil tell Daily Report, in a lengthy response to a National Public Radio story, they are "disappointed with the numerous factual errors and misperceptions" it allegedly contains. NPR aired a nine-minute story on the...
DATE: May 31, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Feed me, please
The updates couldn't come fast enough as I nearly pressed my face against the screen, leaning into the words crawling past my eyes.
DATE: May 31, 2013 | CATEGORY: News (225)
Kimberly Nicole Forman
Age: 40Occupation: Fire dancerHometown: Vidalia, La.
DATE: May 31, 2013 | CATEGORY: News (225)
Exxon response to NPR report
ExxonMobil is disappointed with the numerous factual errors, and misperceptions in the National Public Radio story about ExxonMobil Baton Rouge and the Louisiana refining and petrochemical industry.
DATE: May 31, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
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