Program launch: A financing program called the Healthy Food Retail Initiative was launched yesterday for supermarkets, grocery stores, or food delivery services to food desert areas of East Baton Rouge Parish, WBRZ-TV reports. The initiative, funded through a partnership between Mayor Sharon Weston Broome’s administration and Hope Enterprise Corporation, will allow community partners to meet with retailers and create incentive packages to drive development in areas of Baton Rouge without access to groceries. Read the full story.
Update: Matthew Naquin, the former LSU student found guilty of negligent homicide in the 2017 hazing death of fraternity pledge Max Gruver, has been sentenced to five years, WAFB-TV reports. A six-person jury found Naquin guilty July 17. Gruver, 18, of Roswell, Georgia, died from alcohol poisoning in September 2017 after a hazing ritual. Read the full story.
Red and blue: Levi Strauss and Wrangler both got their start as the go-to jeans for cowboys, railroad workers and others who pioneered the American West. Today, they are on opposite sides of a political divide and representative of a trend among brands, The Wall Street Journal reports. Since the 2016 election, companies have started to wade deeper into issues they would have recoiled from a decade ago, and a survey completed by Edelman shows consumers are responsive to this, buying or boycotting brands according to their stances. Read the full story.
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