Organization issues awards for nonprofit and community leadership, celebrates top-5 year for philanthropy, elects new board members Baton Rouge, LA – The Baton Rouge Area Foundation today announced the appointment of three new members to their board of directors. Thomas “Tim” Barfield, Anita Byrne, and Milford “Mike” Wampold were elected by BRAF’s members at their […]
By Gary Perilloux What’s $17 billion? It’s Netflix’s entire content investment for 2021 and the cost of Samsung’s advanced semiconductor plant in Central Texas. For Southwest Louisiana, $17 billion is the cost of reclaiming home. That’s the estimated damages from a four-punch storm combination: Hurricane Laura in August 2020, Hurricane Delta in October 2020, a […]
By Sara Bongiorni Louisiana State University’s internal medicine residency in Baton Rouge has had two homes in its first half-century. It began at Earl K. Long Hospital in the summer of 1971. The program moved in 2013 to the newly built Medical Education and Innovation Center near Our Lady of the Lake, its teaching hospital […]
By Sara Bongiorni The YMCA of the Capital Area will open an early childhood education program at its A.C. Lewis branch in early 2022—a first for the YMCA in Baton Rouge. Christian Engle | Photo by Tim mueller It’s a notable early step in a wide-ranging effort to expand the YMCA’s role in promoting community […]
Baton Rouge, La., October 26, 2021 – We are proud to announce AT&T’s contribution of $375,000 to the Hurricane Ida Relief Fund. These dollars will support critical response and recovery efforts being made by community foundations across Southeast Louisiana. The Hurricane Ida Relief and Recovery Fund makes grants to community foundations in Southeast Louisiana. The […]
Currents Q4 2021
By Gary Perilloux Broadway fans will remember the musical Fiddler on the Roof and the battle cry of Tevye the Dairyman: “Tradition.” Dairyman: “Tradition!” Yet tradition without change, as Tevye discovered, can bar growth. In the early 21st century, Baton Rouge leaders recognized that truth. A 2011 master plan, FuturEBR, identified 11 million square feet […]
Stephenson Stellar, a plucky science startup, focuses its cyber vision on space By Gary Perilloux In the six score and eight years since a stroke of Abraham Lincoln’s pen established the National Academy of Sciences, rarely had the society of scholars issued so dire a warning. The year—1991—found them raising the alarm in Computers at […]
A clear majority of Baton Rouge residents want the Baton Rouge Police Department and East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s office merged. They support a fee to clean up trash from waterbodies and believe that the parish has a very serious litter problem. And six of 10 parents want their children to leave the parish to live […]
Ardendale will blend services with a mix of housing By Sara Bongiorni Upcoming construction of a vital new roadway and groundbreaking on the first phase of $100 million in planned housing highlight the Ardendale project’s focus on transforming some of the poorest neighborhoods in Baton Rouge. Ardendale is being developed on 200 acres of raw […]
Government Street’s redesign has drawn businesses and residents to Mid City. Planner Camille Manning-Broome says the success is a beginning. By Mukul Verma With a reworking, Government Street has become a destination, and no longer a fast road to some- where else. The state spent $12 million to turn four lanes into two lanes and […]