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Making HBCUs whole
1 down, 9 to go
Mayor-President takes down first blighted buiding on his target list
Have it their way
Unpaving paradise
Removing cemented canals in the parish would create more desirable neighborhoods and improve water retention.
St. George charts its course
BREC leader: Change is coming
Time to thrill, fill, spill
Fall is here, and that means a festival for purchasing plants. Bring a big car and a fat wallet.
Love the lid
Heinz designed a Ketchup lid with three levels of pouring. Too bad it's now expensive on the secondary market.
Table for one
Congress wants to bring order to college sports by limiting athlete compensation and movement without athletes being allowed in the room.
The weight of summer hibernation
Pennington Biomedical researchers find that heat dulls your appetite. It may dull your metabolism more.
Quick guide to midterm election
The political talking heads are already debating the midterm elections. RedEye skips the shouting and gives you a quick primer on the Nov. 3 ballot—and how to vote.
* Mobile election info: Want election info on the go? There's an app for that.
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Dads with cats
More men are adopting cats and spending big money on them.
Bridging Nicholson
📅 Baton Rouge: Week at a Glance | Oct. 5–11
Why it matters: Saturday is the week's anchor—PlantFest!, Boots on the Farm, Cat Tales and Cocktails, Laser Zeppelin at LASM, Rural Life Alive! and The California Honeydrops all land the same day. Thursday brings three simultaneous free art receptions at the Shaw Center. Friday delivers a televised
Won't ya' hep me?
We know we should put the phone down. We may need a little help: More than half of U.S. adults—53%—say they spend too much time on their smartphones.
That’s according to a Pew Research Center survey of 9,750 adults conducted from May 26 to June
Burning issue
The Supreme Court will decide whether cities can make oil companies help pay for a warming world. Few places have more riding on the answer than here.
Low rent, free wisdom
A Boston program pairs older adults with younger people seeking affordable housing.
Teeing up a compromise
BREC could open City Park Golf Course to more than golfers. Here’s how other cities share their courses—and what locals would do with ours.
Choose the human line
Call me old-fashioned, but I hate self-checkout at the grocery store. I get why profit-loving businesses love them, but for me it's a tedious pain. Which explains why my grocery runs are timed to when an actual human is standing sentry at the register. On
Must-see LSU
Through four weeks, LSU is the second-most-watched team in college football, trailing only No. 1 Texas. Alabama, despite its early-season struggles, barely cracks the top 10, according to Nielsen and ESPN data.
Why it matters: TV ratings mean big money for the SEC. Being one of the
Time out
Harvest Days will take you back to rural Louisiana, when the world moved in sync with the sun.
Land of the free, home of the forms
A new book details why the government is wasting your time, and how to remove red tape.
LSU's quiet decade-long tech bet
Bill Gates: AI could bring apocalypse before abundance
The Yoda of high-tech speaks to the NY Times in an interview that frames the AI debate for the next generation.
Growing older, but not up
Moving out is not the same as moving off the family payroll: U.S. parents gave $26.6 billion to adult children living outside their homes in 2024.
That’s quite the parental payroll, with the U.S. Census Bureau reporting that the money flowed from 2.6 million parents
Smash hit at the mall
Some Baton Rouge diners keep a strict no-chains policy. Shake Shack should be an exception to the rules
Strike a pose
NFL Flag is coming to Baton Rouge. It's accessible to kids who just want to play.
LSU's bill comes due
Tiger Athletics was once profitable but is now losing money—a lot of it. What happened, and what can be done about it?
New Orleans wants to pay new parents
A Flint program offers a promising model for reducing evictions and improving outcomes for newborns in families that need additional support.
Twenty acres of maybe
The parish has fielded offers for about 20 riverfront acres on Nicholson Drive.
Slurp the soup
Break the etiquette rules. Eat sushi with your hands and drink soup with no implements.
Overcoming a high-rise hurdle
Library's checkbook beats credit card
One more step for Musk
The rocket carrying Louisiana’s spaceport hopes had a good day yesterday. Not a perfect one.
A walk in the clouds
Memphis opens a $10 million perch on the Mississippi River.
Is BR really this mad?
What Baton Rouge says online or at a public meeting may not be what Baton Rouge actually thinks.
📅 Baton Rouge: Week at a Glance | Sept. 28–Oct. 4
Why it matters: Sunday is packed—Free First Sunday, One Piece at a Time at the Old Governor's Mansion, a mystery kids' film at Manship, PlantFest! preview at Hilltop and The Lone Bellow closing the night. Thursday opens a new LSU MOA exhibition and BRBT's
Walk this way
Baton Rouge ranks high for walking but not for biking. Implementing the bike and pedestrian plan would greatly benefit the city.
LSU got better. It fell anyway.
LSU has dropped 67 spots in U.S. News’ national rankings over the past decade. The numbers underneath that dive tell a more complicated story.
The River Center domino
Golf course for all?
BREC considers opening City Park Golf Course for other uses. The commission also acknowledged the master plan, a small step toward eventual implementation.