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Oct 5, 2023 | 
businessreport.com | Will Sentell - |Will Sentell |Deanna Narveson
Livingston Parish was once a sleepy, mostly rural parish that a little over 70,000 people called home, and everyone had to go into Baton Rouge for health care, restaurants or retail. Today, the parish is bustling with a growing wave of its own amenities: Our Lady of the Lake’s ER marked its 10-year anniversary this year, and both it and North Oaks Health System have medical complexes there.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
businessreport.com | Will Sentell - |Will Sentell
When John Blount got into the construction business in 1987, Livingston Parish was a sleepy, mostly rural parish that a little over 70,000 people called home. At the time, short of a few local mom and pop grocers and eateries, Baton Rouge was the place to go for everything, whether it be health care, restaurants or retail.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
tigerrag.com | Will Sentell |William Weathers |Todd Horne |Tim Buckley
Nearly 30 years after he exploded on the scene for the Leesville Wampus Cats the legend of Cecil “The Diesel” Collins still hovers over Louisiana’s football history. In 1995 Collins led his school to its first and only state championship game, was named Louisiana’s initial Mr. Football and had recruiters from LSU, Nebraska and Notre Dame visiting this west central town in hopes of landing his commitment.
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
businessreport.com | Will Sentell - |Will Sentell
Louisiana’s fastest-growing software firm could have been launched anywhere in the nation. But Mohit “Mo” Vij, president and CEO of 365Labs, always insisted on Baton Rouge. “We are breaking the stereotype that high-tech can only happen in Silicon Valley,” says Vij, whose company has become the go-to software source for law enforcement, collecting a slew of honors along the way.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
businessreport.com | Will Sentell - |Will Sentell |JR Ball
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Jul 10, 2023 | 
businessreport.com | Will Sentell - |Will Sentell
The Mall of Louisiana, the jewel of Baton Rouge retail less than a decade ago, now finds itself in need of a reinvention to keep the sprawling complex relevant to shoppers, local real estate experts say. “There is definitely a trend away from the indoor, climate-controlled malls,” says Michael Budden, Benjamin Jones professor of retail marketing at Southeastern Louisiana University. Budden and others predict that about half of the nation’s roughly 1,000 indoor malls will be gone in five years.
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Apr 3, 2023 | 
ktbs.com | Will Sentell
BATON ROUGE, La. - While teacher pay hikes top the education agenda for the 2023 regular legislative session, debates are also expected over a push to force third graders with reading problems to repeat the grade and over what pronouns teachers can use with students. Bills requiring high school students to pass a course in financial literacy, to let public school students use their state aid to attend private or other schools and to ban spanking in schools will also spark controversy.
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Apr 3, 2023 | 
nola.com | Will Sentell
While teacher pay hikes top the education agenda for the 2023 regular legislative session, debates are also expected over a push to force third graders with reading problems to repeat the grade and over what pronouns teachers can use with students. Bills requiring high school students to pass a course in financial literacy, to let public school students use their state aid to attend private or other schools and to ban spanking in schools will also spark controversy.
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Mar 31, 2023 | 
nola.com | Will Sentell
Some state government offices experienced a 40-minute computer network outage Friday morning, officials said. The issue affected some executive branch offices but not those of elected officials. "It was a minor hardware issue," said Jacques Berry, a spokesperson for the Division of Administration. Berry said state officials will do a routine analysis to improve how any future such events are handled.
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Mar 27, 2023 | 
nola.com | Will Sentell
The site of a new Missisissippi River bridge aimed at easing daily traffic jams in the Baton Rouge area may be picked by spring 2024, instead of the summer of that year, a consultant told a state panel Monday. Three sites, all in Iberville Parish, are being considered for the new bridge.
