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Currents Q1 2022

Struck by hurricanes and endangered by higher seas, Cameron Parish has become sparsely populated. Is there a future for the largest parish in Louisiana? By C.E. Richard Riley Marks, 17, […]

Seattle writer Nathan Harris’ debut novel, The Sweetness of Water, has won the 2021 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, presented annually by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]