5+ hour, 25+ min ago  (12+ words) Roundup: Inflation / Voting rights bill / New Gulf oil find'Baton Rouge Business Report...

5+ hour, 17+ min ago  (545+ words) The Senate Commerce Committee advanced a bill Tuesday that would extend protections for high school and college student-athletes engaging in name, image and likeness contracts. J. T. Curtis, head football coach of John Curtis Christian School in River Ridge, told the committee…...

5+ hour, 25+ min ago  (128+ words) Baton Rouge Business Report Fails to advance: Louisiana lawmakers narrowly rejected a proposed state Voting Rights Act, with a Senate committee voting 4-3 along party lines to block the measure. The bill aimed to strengthen protections against gerrymandering and voter suppression…...

5+ hour, 22+ min ago  (412+ words) Internal medicine physician Kenny Cole remembers struggling to meet the needs of older patients in appointment time slots designed for simpler, straightforward cases. "An 18-year-old with a sore throat would have a 15-minute clinic visit on my schedule, and so…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (408+ words) LSU is back in the national headlines again, but not for a national championship. A recent opinion column in USA Today by Blake Toppmeyer featured the headline: "A scoundrel returns: Will Wade's LSU comeback makes perfect sense." "Does LSU possess…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (204+ words) Baton Rouge Business Report Wednesday, April 8, 2026 Unsecured weapons: A Louisiana Senate committee blocked a proposal Tuesday that would have made it a misdemeanor crime to leave loaded guns unsecured in the presence of young children, the mentally ill or anyone…...

1+ day, 59+ min ago  (166+ words) The Federal Reserve is proposing a significant expansion of its real-time payments system, a move that could reshape how money flows between banks and credit unions, Bloomberg writes." Under the plan, financial institutions would be allowed to use intermediaries when…...

1+ day, 15+ min ago  (48+ words) Baton Rouge Business Report Wednesday, April 8, 2026 A Lafayette-based developer has purchased roughly 33 acres near the Walmart on Sullivan Road in Central for a new residential project. Southern Ventures Development acquired the property last w...

1+ day, 34+ min ago  (388+ words) Baton Rouge's Thunderbolt Signs alleges that Prairieville's Deep South Signs and its owner, Morgan Descant, paid bribes to at least one project manager at a national sign company in exchange for steering installation work their way, according to the complaint…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (167+ words) Oil and gas executives cashed in on a market surge triggered by geopolitical turmoil, selling roughly $1. 4 billion in stock during the first quarter as crude prices spiked following U. S. military action against Iran, The Wall Street Journal writes." Shares of major…...