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New advisory committee will evaluate if street names tied to Confederacy should be changed

New advisory committee will evaluate if street names tied to Confederacy should be changed New advisory committee will evaluate if street names tied to Confederacy should be changed 4 hours 9 minutes 13 seconds ago Wednesday, May 12 2021 May 12, 2021 May 12, 2021 7:58 PM May 12, 2021 in News Source: The Advocate Share: BATON ROUGE - A new group created by the East Baton Rouge Metro Council will spend a year studying Confederate street names, and evaluate whether they should be changed.  The EBR Metro Council approved the measure in a unanimous vote Wednesday, after pushing it back two weeks ago due to concerns from certain council members. Before the vote, lead sponsor Councilwoman Erika Green mentioned a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center that listed 55 streets and roads in Louisiana which had ties to slavery, racism and the Confederacy. Three of those streets are in East Baton Rouge Parish. 

Activist Files Lawsuit To Stop Alton Sterling Settlement | WJBO Newsradio 1150 AM & 98 7 FM

Apr 14, 2021 (Getty Images) A local activist is suing the East Baton Rouge Metro Council over the Alton Sterling settlement. Mary Jane Marcantel claims the Metro Council violated Louisiana s open meetings law when it offered the multi-million-dollar settlement to the Sterling family. Marcantel is now asking the 19th Judicial District Court to void the approval of the settlement. The lawsuit comes a few weeks after state Attorney General Jeff Landry s office issued an opinion rejecting Marcantel s claims. Copyright © 2021 TTWN Media Networks Inc.  

Amazon is snapping up disused shopping malls and turning them into fulfillment centers

Amazon is snapping up disused shopping malls and turning them into fulfillment centers Leticia Miranda © Provided by NBC News Malls that buckled due to e-commerce or suffered during the pandemic are being given new life by the very entity that precipitated their decline Amazon. Over the last several months, the retail giant has gone on a shopping spree of its own, buying up disused malls across the country and turning them into distribution centers. In March, Amazon won approval to turn a mall in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, into a 3.4 million-square-foot distribution building, and a mall in Knoxville, Tennessee, into a 220,000-square-foot distribution center. In December, the local planning board in Worcester, Massachusetts, signed off on Amazon s request to convert the city s Greendale Mall into a 121,000-square-foot distribution center.

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