Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is planning to build a five-billion dollar artificial data center near Holly Ridge in Richland Parish. This could result in as many as 500 well-paying jobs. For the project to become a reality, the Public Service Commission will have to approve three natural gas power plants, which would provide power to the facility. P-S-C Member Foster Campbell says he’ll do what he can to make sure the project becomes a reality, because northeast Louisiana needs the jobs.
The Louisiana Workforce Commission says the state added 77-hundred jobs in October. L-W-C Economist Emily DiPalma says construction, private education and health services and manufacturing showed the largest gains over the month and Dipalma expects those industries to keep adding jobs…
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The Houma market added 500 jobs over the last month, 300 additional jobs for Lafayette and Shreveport, but Monroe lost 200 jobs.
Baton Rouge Congressman Garrett Graves has only about six weeks left in office. But he has an idea of what the Trump administration will do once President-elect Donald Trump takes office…
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Graves says he’s talked with Trump’s transition team about joining the administration, but nothing was finalized.
LSU Police are looking for whoever stole approximately 40 championship rings from legendary gymnastics coach D-D Breaux’s on campus office. Breaux retired as coach in 2020 and still works for the university in an ambassador role. Breaux is praying they turn up…
Breaux says whoever stole the rings was apparently only after the rings, because nothing else was taken.