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Time is running out for the community to take advantage of the free concert series Turn It Up Tuesday at Founder’s Park.

(The Center Square) — The U.S. will need more reliable energy sources than ever before and the Trump administration will deliver, an assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy said at a summit Thursday.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana judge has tossed out a key permit for a liquefied natural gas facility that won approval from President Donald Trump's administration, ordering a state review of how the facility's planet-warming emissions would affect Gulf Coast communities vulnerable to sea-level rise and extreme weather.

(The Center Square) — In an act of defiance, Democratic senators blocked the House-passed full-year funding bill for the Department of Defense from advancing Thursday.

(The Center Square) — A report from the Early Childhood Care and Education Commission is urging Louisiana leaders to lock in a decade of new earlychildhood funding, warning that child-care shortages are sidelining parents from the labor force and dulling the state’s growth prospects. In a report titled “Building on What Works,” the panel links affordable, high-quality care for infants and toddlers to Louisiana’s ability to fill tens of thousands of anticipated jobs and sustain recent economic momentum. The document also notes that its “findings and recommendations are the Commission’s alone and do not represent the Louisiana Department of Education’s position.'