A utility born from sawdust now supplies the Gulf South’s digital ambitions. Its hardest problem is making a bigger grid work for the people already paying for it.

He spent 24 years inside Entergy before becoming its CEO. Now Drew Marsh is trying to make the Gulf South’s appetite for electricity add up for the people who already live there.
The Metairie PR firm has spent 17 years turning a very New Orleans asset - knowing whom to call, and why they might care - into campaigns that move votes, registrations and millions of charitable dollars.
A New Orleans nonprofit has built a route from a first business idea to venture capital. Its most revealing feature is the price of admission: no fee or equity for its flagship accelerator, with investment handled separately.