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Something to prove

New Schools for Baton Rouge offers radical reform model, the country is watching By Sara Bongiorni The stakes were always high for New Schools for Baton Rouge, which set out […]

Lanes of their own

Under a new plan, BR could build extensive bike, pedestrian network By Sara Bongiorni The draft of a master plan for developing a parishwide network of bike and pedestrian paths […]

Jamel Brinkley, Gaines Book Award winner

Jamel Brinkley won the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for his debut collection A Lucky Man. The Baton Rouge Area Foundation started and oversees the $10,000 book […]

A Tale of Two Streets

By Maggie Heyn Richardson To the south, there is Nicholson Drive, Louisiana Highway 30, a major corridor that runs from downtown Baton Rouge past Tiger Stadium and continues southward to […]

Pennington Biomedical’s Next Act

By Maggie Heyn Richardson Few public health problems are as complex as obesity. Forty percent of adults in the United States now struggle with the condition, the highest rate on […]

The G-word

Gentrification is improving neighborhoods in Mid City. By Sara Bongiorni The Economist magazine calls gentrification the dirtiest word in American cities. Used to describe an influx of middle-class, often white […]