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Business Winners
Each year, the Better Business Bureau selects local companies whose leaders demonstrate personal character and uphold high standards of ethics, which generate trust in their respective organizations.

Society of Illustrators Honors Joyce
William Joyce Receives 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award

Work Continues on Budget
You know when it feels like you have several balls in the air and you are waiting for them all to come down?

Woke on Abortion
This may give the phrase “being woke” a whole new meaning.

On the Air with Chica
Each edition, Tony Taglavore takes a local person to lunch – someone well-known, influential or successful – and asks, “What’s Your Story?”

A Good Country Song
Darwin thought the same. “Gone to Texas” has Darwin, vice president of logistics for AFS Logistics, a Top 10 nominee for Songwriter of the Year by the Texas Country Music Association (TCMA).

BeauxJax Crafthouse
If you go to BeauxJax, be prepared to park and walk. A little after noon, street parking near the restaurant was full. We parked in a concrete surface lot behind and a couple of streets over from BeauxJax.

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The Young Professionals Initiative hosted a 40 Under Forty Reunion Social.

A Rosy Christmas
As well as being part of the Holiday Trail of Lights, which wends its way across the landscape, Christmas in Roseland will add several special events to the menu this year.

Shreveport Opera Plays Santa
The SOX Educational Program is the touring component of Shreveport Opera and the only one of its kind in the state, taking live musical programming to thousands of students in the region who may otherwise never have the opportunity to experience them.

Brighter Future
At the start of the school year, we talked with the Louisiana State Superintendent of Education, Dr. Cade Brumley, on the KTBS-3 Education Checkup podcast. Dr. Brumley is from Northwest Louisiana and started his teaching career in Caddo Parish.

Think on these things …
We all have a lot of thoughts constantly bouncing around in our heads. Thoughts about our family, our job, our health, our home, our vehicles, our community, our country, the world … the list goes on and on.

40 UNDER FORTY
Each year, the Greater Shreveport Chamber’s Young Professional Initiative highlights 40 of our region’s most dynamic and accomplished young professionals who are engaged in our community in business, family and service.

Preventing Dementia
As with many disease processes, we know that prevention is key. Even with dementia or cognitive decline, there are many things we can do throughout our life span, no matter when we start, that can have a positive impact on our cognitive and memory health.

Keeping in Top Condition
Everybody desires a healthy and long life. Not only is eating a nutritious diet important, but so is completing routine screening tests.

The Healthy Geezer
Lots of truth. Laughter simply makes you feel good, which benefits you in many ways. We come into this world knowing how to laugh.

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NOV. 30 - JAN. 7: SING A SONG OF CHEER - A NORTON HOLIDAY EXHIBITION:.

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