Act 818 was supposed to keep team-by-team athlete payouts out of public view. A clerical slip in UL System board documents shows exactly how much four schools are paying players, and the number is public money.

Applied Atomics is putting a headquarters in the Bywater and betting that data center demand can finally get the mPower reactor design across the finish line after federal backing dried up nine years ago.

I work in manufacturing here in Louisiana, and we've seen this movie before. In 1990, America made 40 percent of the world's semiconductors. Today it's 12 percent. We let that slip away the same way we let solar panel and battery production slip away — by assuming free markets would sort it out, while China's state-directed economy simply took the ground we gave up. Now Congress has a chance to not repeat that mistake with AI chips, and some in Washington want to weaken expor

Louisiana's refining industry is positioned to be one of the biggest winners as Venezuela's oil sector comes back online. The state's infrastructure was essentially built for this kind of crude, and that head start is now paying off as the Trump administration pushes to ramp up Venezuelan production. The reason Louisiana fits so well is straightforward. Venezuelan oil is heavy and high in sulfur, which means it needs specialized refining equipment that not every Gulf Coast fa