Legislation to attract the aerospace industry to Louisiana has been approved by the House Ways and Means Committee. Economic Development Secretary Susan Bourgeois says other states are currently providing better tax incentives to lure aerospace companies.
The measure would give sales tax rebates to aerospace businesses that create 200 permanent jobs and make a one-billion-dollar investment.
There are 455-thousand people on the state’s inactive voter list, but Secretary of State Nancy Landry says they are still able to vote in the upcoming primaries.
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Landry says a registered voter gets put on the inactive list if he or she has not cast a ballot in the last ten years and did not respond to an address confirmation card sent by the Secretary of State’s Office.
The Artemis Two crew has circled the moon and is headed back to Earth. The four astronauts aboard have traveled farther from Earth than anyone else ever has. Eric Burns, a professor of physics and astronomy at LSU, says we are learning what a trip like this does to the human body.
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In two years, NASA hopes to have astronauts back on the moon.
A new study from Lending Tree finds that the failure percentage for small businesses in Louisiana is about 20-percent in the first year, which is actually third lowest rate in the country. But Chief Consumer Financial Analyst Matt Schulz says the five-year failure rate paints a different picture…
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The information industry — which involves producing and distributing information and cultural products and processing data — has the highest failure rate for new businesses.