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SBA Approves Loans for Louisiana businesses impacted by Bourbon Street attack
Gov. Jeff Landry announced that the U.S. Small Business Administration has approved an Economic Injury Disaster Declaration to assist...
Dec 5, 2024
Meta Selects Northeast Louisiana as Site of $10 Billion Artificial Intelligence Optimized Data Center; Governor Jeff Landry Calls Investment ‘A New Chapter’ for State
RICHLAND PARISH, La. – Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta announced it will build a $10 billion artificial intelligence data...
Nov 20, 2024
Comcast Greenlights $7 Billion Spinoff of NBCUniversal Cable Channels
The company, which last month said it was studying the idea , will separate off entertainment and news channels including MSNBC, CNBC,...
Nov 16, 2024
Sweeping tax overhaul in Louisiana hits snag on sales tax expansion
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers on Thursday postponed a vote on a key bill in Gov. Jeff Landry’s sweeping and complex tax...
Nov 11, 2024
‘This tax code is broken’: Gov. Landry pitches Louisiana tax overhaul to start special session
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry kicked off a two and a half week special session with a call for legislators to drastically overhaul the...
Nov 4, 2024
Louisiana's Tax Code Reform: A Path to Competitiveness and Growth
Louisiana's current tax code features several inefficient and uncompetitive policies, resulting in the state falling behind in tax...
Oct 21, 2024
Opposition Grows Against the Credit Card Competition Act
Credit unions and their advocates have spent months raising concerns with lawmakers about the Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA). These...
Aug 15, 2024
Mortgage rates are way below their peak. Americans are swooping in
The standard, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.49% this week, up slightly from the prior week’s level, Freddie Mac reported...
Aug 5, 2024
Evaluating Security in Credit Card Networks: Lessons from the Recent CrowdStrike Incident
On Friday morning, a massive outage linked to a faulty software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike rippled across multiple...
Aug 5, 2024
Stock Market Today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq Slide Amid Global Selloff
A stock-market selloff extended around the world, with U.S. indexes sliding and volatility spiking. In early trading, the Nasdaq...
Aug 5, 2024
Lack of Broadband May Be Stifling Rural Louisiana Business
The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe hosted its third annual Louisiana Rural Economic Development conference in Marksville. Speakers ranged from the...
Jul 30, 2024
LA Based Hospital Launches $10M Louisiana Investment Fund
Ochsner Health’s venture arm has launched the Ochsner Louisiana Innovation Fund, a $10 million fund for investments in Louisiana-based,...
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