By TODD HORNE, EXECUTIVE EDITOR There is a moment in every public‐ finance story when the words themselves betray a shift in power. At first, the jargon is reassuring—economic development, public‐private partnership, infrastructure, catalytic investment, […]
Every development district needs a center of gravity. For the Bayou Fountain Economic Development District, that gravity isn’t LSU or any of the sports-tourism advocates pushing the project. It’s the Duplantier family’s land. And if […]
By TODD HORNE, EXECUTIVE EDITOR The City-Parish Revenue Division has notified businesses inside the Bayou Fountain Economic Development District that new sales-tax reporting requirements took effect July 1, even though the Metro Council has deferred […]
By TODD HORNE, EXECUTIVE EDITOR The Super League Already Exists Everyone keeps asking when the Super League is coming. Wrong question. The Super League is already here. It simply doesn’t have a logo. For years, […]
Jay Johnson discusses the latest transfer portal additions and gives a sneak peak at what he has brewing in Baton Rouge. We talk what went wrong for LSU baseball this season with former Tiger and […]
By TODD HORNE, EXECUTIVE EDITOR The East Baton Rouge Metro Council faces a June 24 decision on whether to sign or again defer a Cooperative Endeavor Agreement that would create a 25-year public-finance structure for […]
By TODD HORNE, EXECUTIVE EDITOR For decades, talk of a college football super league lived in the same fringe as UFO sightings and half-baked realignment graphics – an online debating point for fanatics, a quiet […]
By TODD HORNE, EXECUTIVE EDITOR For years, whenever somebody mentioned a college sports super league, the reaction was predictable. That will never happen. The NCAA would never allow it. The conferences would never agree to […]
By Todd Horne, Executive Editor The Protect College Sports Act of 2026 is being described nationally as an NIL bill, or a transfer‑portal bill, or a response to the House settlement, or a legal shield […]
By TODD HORNE, EXECUTIVE EDITOR Wade Rousse is not wrong about the arena. This is where the conversation should begin. As LSU’s president, Rousse has made a clear point: the Pete Maravich Assembly Center is […]
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