In partnership with The Acadiana Advocate, the705 is recognizing its annual Top 20 Under 40 Acadiana Leadership Award honorees, presented by Advancial Federal Credit Union. Honorees will be recognized at a May 2 banquet. For tickets, visit bit.ly/20under40for2025. Lore Linton is executive director of the Children’s Museum of Acadiana. Tell me about your life growing up. Where are you from, and who were your biggest influences on your life? I was born in Houston, but my parents moved back home to Lafayette when I was 2 because, as we all...

is a correspondent at Vox writing about climate change, energy policy, and science. He is also a regular contributor to the radio program Science Friday. Prior to Vox, he was a reporter for ClimateWire at E&E News. AI is driving demand for data centers that in turn are creating demand for more energy. Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images Though they have no moving parts, they devour electricity as they store and modify bits of information. “Ones and zeros are encoded as these high and low voltages,” said Timothy Sherwood, a...

For all the turmoil these days, the U.S. stock market remains extremely attractive to investors around the world, simply because of its sheer size and liquidity. But it’s still quite difficult for investors in other parts of the globe to trade stocks on U.S. exchanges. A San Mateo-based startup called Alpaca has quietly capitalized on that opportunity by offering an API to financial services firms that let them sell trading services to their consumer user bases. Today, Alpaca claims it serves more than 5 million brokerage accounts, and has more...

President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs are putting many California businesses, jobs and the state budget at risk. They’re affecting not only long-term relationships with trading partners, but an intricate web of ecosystems and supply chains. The California business owners and groups grappling with the tariffs — wine shop owners, winery founders, farmers — say the precise effects on their industries are unclear so far. They hope there will be an upside. But for those who have a broad view of trade, things look grim. The Port of Los Angeles...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. We have high standards for our shoes — and they just got even higher. We’ve already been vocal about our love for comfortable clogs like the ones seen on Jennifer Garner , but we obviously don’t want to wear warm, furry shoes during the hottest months of the year. And because impromptu plans are more likely during summer, we’d love for our next go-to pair to work well with more than just loungewear, unlike Garner’s. That’s where heeled clogs...

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Coinbase (COIN) has established the industry's most scaled crypto trading platform with a domestic market share of around 66%, broker Benchmark said in a report Wednesday, while also initiating coverage of the stock. Benchmark assumed coverage of Coinbase with a buy rating and a $252 price target. The shares were over 4% higher at around $198 in early trading. The crypto exchange offers a "comprehensive suite of products and services aimed at facilitating the adoption and use of digital assets by both retail and institutional investors," analyst Mark Palmer wrote....

SALT LAKE CITY — A subsidized housing facility for seniors recently reopened after an extensive renovation, offering modernized units and more affordable housing options to new and current tenants. New City Plaza recently opened to new tenants aged 62 and older following its nearly three-year-long renovation and modernization project. The new facility is geared toward seniors and qualifies as a "deeply affordable" housing option, meaning it is designed for those who earn 59% of the area median income or less, with priority for those earning under 30%. Housing Connect —...