Kate Archer Kent

A new mobile app called Texas Avenue Speaks tells the rich history of the Texas Avenue corridor in Shreveport. The multimedia history tour uses maps, images, audio and video to chronicle the area from 1839 -- Shreveport's incorporation -- to present day. The Texas Avenue Community Association created the downloadable app for Apple mobile devices through a grant from the Beaird Family Foundation.

LSU Health Shreveport Chancellor Dr. Robert Barish says the teaching hospital's mission will be enhanced under the Supreme Court's landmark decision to uphold nearly all of the health care reform law. Nurse practitioner Kathryn Arterberry, a nursing professor at Northwestern State, says she expect more people will seek out preventative care. She hopes her profession can meet the need. Shreveport attorney Larry Pettiette anticipates a wave of new litigation as the health care industry tries to parse the law and apply it to the business side.

Dozens of business and civic leaders from the Shreveport-Bossier area attended a two-day workshop at Centenary College to conceive various scenarios that could play out in the region decades from now. Centenary College's Frost School of Business and the University of Oxford facilitated the exercise.

DeBerry, Texas, resident Rev. David Hudson met with the assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity to discuss the placement of saltwater injection wells in rural Panola County and declining property values. 

Two wood sculptures by Northwestern State University art professor Michael Yankowski have received honorable mention in the Design in Wood Exhibition under way in Del Mar, Calif. His sculpture, "Spiritus," will be included in Art Melt, set for July 14 in Baton Rouge.