Many rural Louisianans who were promisedaccess to fiber internet may be out of luck.Recent changes to the federal Broadband EquityAccess and Deployment program, originally set togrant Louisiana $1.3 billion for fiber expansion,will reverse the Biden administration’s fiberfirstapproach, and with it, the fiber expansion asplanned in rural Louisiana.Louisiana was set to start dispersing the grantfunds this year through the GUMBO 2.0 …

MONROE, Louisiana (June 16, 2025) – A newly released economicimpact study commissioned by Grow NELA shows just howtransformative Meta’s $10 billion artificial intelligence data centerproject in Richland Parish will be for Northeast Louisiana. The report,prepared by Ginovus, an independent and globally recognizedeconomic development consultancy, outlines powerful, quantifiablegains to jobs, wages, and tax revenues, underscoring the scaleof growth now underway across …

I have never, not once, been harassed by a snakewhen there is frost on the ground. Let the weatherstart to warm up and I have to watch where I step,sort of like it was when I was a barefoot boy growingup and we had chickens in the yard. You’remuch more likely to step in a chicken dabthan one left by …