If you’re single and you have a dog, you’ll know that you can never get serious about dating someone who doesn’t like your dog. Or worse, doesn’t like dogs in general.  That self-selection of single dog people is the premise behind a dating app called Dig. Yes, it’s a dating app for dog lovers looking…

We hear a lot about New Orleans being 300 years old. Right around our 100th birthday there was a giant worldwide shakeup. It came to be known as The Industrial Revolution. As it went along, more and more of us started living in cities that got bigger and bigger. Our connection to the land got more…

A few years ago, our biggest housing problem in New Orleans was abandoned houses and blight. Today our biggest problems are gentrification and soaring rents. In an over-all economic sense, they’re better problems to have. But if housing is your personal problem, or your business is affected, the betterment of the overall economy is not so attractive….

The new “gig economy” is a combination of self-employment and contract work. It’s a model pioneered by Uber and Lyft. The same model is finding its way into other occupations. You may not have considered ambulance drivers and the ER fitting into this concept. But that’s exactly what a New Orleans company, Ready Responders, is pioneering. It’s…

When you think about inspirational figures – people who inspire you with their dedication to good works – you might think about Mother Theresa or the Dalai Lama. You probably don’t think of local men in the construction industry. Peter Ricchiuti’s guests on Out to Lunch might change that. Jim Pate is Executive Director of…