Rich Collins

3 weeks ago | nola.com | Rich Collins

The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University has earned the nickname “Mardi Gras for the Mind.”Under mostly sunny skies Friday at Tulane’s Uptown campus, "Disney World for the mind" might have been the better comparison as thousands of fest attendees queued up in long lines to attend talks from a roster of high-profile speakers and authors.

3 weeks ago | nola.com | Rich Collins

Tulane University grabbed a small spot in the national conversation over the Trump administration's Signal chat leak on Thursday as journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, discussed his blockbuster article and its implications for U.S. security at the New Orleans Book Festival.

4 weeks ago | nola.com | Rich Collins

When Silicon Valley rock star Paul Jacobs in 2023 became CEO of Globalstar — a publicly traded satellite company that powers communication for mobile devices — it was something of a full-circle moment. Jacobs spent nearly a decade in the mid-2000s at the helm of Qualcomm, the San Diego maker of semiconductors, software and services for wireless technology that created Globalstar in the early 1990s, so taking the helm of the Covington-based company was a return to his roots.

4 weeks ago | theadvocate.com | Rich Collins

Two thirds of Louisiana parishes lost population last year, and New Orleans was the fastest-shrinking metro area in the country for the second year in a row. These statistics have raised alarms for political and business leaders who know that as people leave in search of jobs, affordable housing, quality of life and good leadership, they leave behind less tax revenue and a smaller workforce. So what can be done to keep people here, bring people back and attract newcomers?

1 month ago | nola.com | Rich Collins

New Orleans Entrepreneur Week is going “back to school.”Headquartered at Gallier Hall for the last five years, the annual celebration of startups is moving its home base to Loyola University New Orleans, which is co-producing this year's event with the Idea Village, a nonprofit business accelerator.