Louisiana's economic development strategy of the past eighteen months has often been discussed in silos. Data center announcements in Richland Parish. AI facility decisions in Rapides. Advanced manufacturing commitments in Northeast Louisiana. Each celebrated separately, each impressive on its own. But they're not really separate at all. They're pieces of something larger: a deliberate diversification away from energy-dependent extraction and toward technology-forward product

Faith Technologies Incorporated announced this month what may be the most significant private investment Northeast Louisiana has seen in years: an $80.5 million commitment to build a sprawling 500,000-square-foot Excellerate manufacturing facility in Ouachita Parish, creating at least 200 direct jobs and rippling across the region with over 500 indirect positions. Construction is already underway, with the facility expected to open by spring 2027. For Monroe, a city that's we

Jamie Dimon does not mince words. The JPMorgan Chase chairman and CEO made that abundantly clear last week when he told Fox Business that Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is "full of s--t" and promised that the banking industry would mount an aggressive fight against the CLARITY Act, the crypto market structure bill now advancing through Congress. Washington's political class clutched its pearls. The crypto lobby fired back. Senator Cynthia Lummis called his remarks "distasteful.

New details emerged this week about how New Orleans landed a spot in Elon Musk's Boring Company tunnel competition, and what the city actually proposed to get there. Documents obtained by The Times-Picayune show that Mayor Helena Moreno submitted a four-page proposal in February to The Boring Company's Tunnel Vision Challenge — a competition the company launched in January inviting any entity, public or private, to pitch a one-mile tunnel concept. The company pledged to fund