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Louisiana House OKs incentives for businesses moving to state
Some question their impact on state revenue Baton Rouge -- Three bills expanding economic development incentives that administration officials say will help bring businesses to the state passed nearly...
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Sheriff Marlin Gusman to be guest speaker at French Quarter Business...
Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman will be the guest speaker for the French Quarter Business Association's April 19 lunch forum. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m. at the Musée Conti...
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Law aimed at curbing ear-piercing 'tin noise' in French Quarter, CBD is...
Businesses will be required to move their speakers away from doors and windows -- or shut them altogether New rules of engagement in the decades-old French Quarter noise wars were laid down Wednesday...
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What do you think of the New Orleans noise ordinance?
Weigh in with this reader poll View full sizeTed Jackson, Times-Picayune archiveA band cranks out entertainment for tourists in front of the Presbytere with amplified music, using a deep-cycle battery...
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President Obama signs law making it easier for small businesses to raise capital
WASHINGTON -- A bill that makes it easier for start-up businesses to raise money is now law. President Barack Obama signed the rare bipartisan jobs bill into law Thursday at the White House. During...
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Neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney finds significant advantage in jobs report
Republican Mitt Romney needs an ailing economy to fully exploit his image as a 'Mr. Fix-It' who can restore the nation's financial health The nation's steady-but-modest job growth presents political...
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Michael Bromwich opens a consulting office
He has pledged never to lobby the Interior Department agencies he led Michael Bromwich, who led the reorganization of the regulatory regime for offshore drilling in the aftermath of the Deepwater...
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St. Bernard Parish is about to get 2,000 vacant Katrina lots
The challenge? What to do with them Preparing for its receipt of about 2,000 vacant lots from the state, St. Bernard Parish is formulating a three-year plan for distributing, developing and...
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St. Tammany assessor election over, but the battle rages on
Feud between Patricia Schwarz Core and her successor, Louis Firzmorris, means transition is anything but smooth The acrimony between the longtime St. Tammany Parish assessor and the small-town mayor...
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Wyoming town with 1 resident is sold for $900,000
2 Vietnamese men placed the winning bid for the town BUFORD, Wyo. -- A town advertised as the smallest in the United States has sold at auction for $900,000. Buford, Wyo., is located between Cheyenne...
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Lieutenant governor says tourism groups will fight to keep share of tax
They want to hold on to .03 percent share of the state's 4 percent states tax dedicated for tourism promotion BATON ROUGE -- A coalition of tourism interests is working to keep a .03 percent share of...
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City agency to hear application today for concrete plant in Lower Garden...
The temporary plant would occupy a 2.8-acre site next to the existing 1.9-acre concrete batching plant at 1585 Tchoupitoulas St. operated by Carlo Ditta Inc. The New Orleans City Planning Commission...
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New Orleans city officials, local execs to meet today with top Obama aides
Economic development, access to capital on agenda for meeting in Washington Three New Orleans City Council members, Mayor Mitch Landrieu's economic development advisor and several local executives are...
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East Slidell getting new post office next month
A new post office serving east Slidell is set to open by the end of May, four months after Hancock Bank decided not to renew the contract to run the station out of one of its Whitney Bank branches....
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Louisiana congressional members divided on taxing millionaires more
President Barack Obama says his proposed 'Buffett rule' is 'the defining issue of our time' Washington -- In a likely preview of the fall elections, Democrats and Republicans offered sharply differing...
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New Orleans planning panel votes down temporary concrete plant in Lower...
Site is catty-corner from an existing concrete batching plant The New Orleans City Planning Commission voted 5-1 Thursday against a request to allow a temporary concrete batching plant on part of the...
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Covington Business Association to meet tonight
The Covington Business Association will meet at 5:30 tonight night at 407 North Restaurant on North Columbia Street to review last month's A Taste of Covington event and discuss future initiatives....
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GSA employees told to report waste
New leadership seeking to change culture of agency that spent $823,000 on a conference at a Las Vegas resort Top officials of the General Services Administration told employees Wednesday they have a...
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New Orleans City Council junks proposal for motor oil recycling plant
Omega Refining Corp. plans to try again, after reaching out to neighbors At the request of Councilman Jon Johnson, the New Orleans City Council has rejected, at least temporarily, a proposal to build...
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Louisiana near the bottom in the gender pay gap, advocacy group says
The American Association of University Women found Louisiana has second-largest gap in earnings between men and women. Only Wyoming has greater disparity. Men in Louisiana earn 33 percent more at...
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