is set to honor the 2015 class Dec. 5 at the Shreveport Convention Center. The honorees have been selected by a special committee from the Young Professionals Initiative, the Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce and Bossier Chamber of Commerce, and cover a wide range of careers and philanthropic work.

On the surface, some things from the administration’s recent budget presentation made it look to the casual observer that it was not as bad as expected. The cut to higher education, while huge at more than $200 million, was not as much as some were predicting.