Today is the last day of early voting. Yesterday, candidates vying for the open seat in the Fifth District met for a one-hour forum in Baton Rouge. Kace Kieschnick reports.

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Election day is next Tuesday, November 3rd.  For details on what’s on the ballot, go to geauxvote.com.
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Three Vermilion Parish residents and a non-profit are suing the parish government for allegedly violating the Open Meetings Act when it gave the green light to the SpaceX development. William Most of Most and Associates, who is representing the plaintiffs, says they were kept in the dark as the state offered SpaceX a 24-billion-dollar tax exemption to build its spaceport in Vermilion Parish.

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The Greater Baton Rouge Economic Partnership says the Capital Region leads comparable metro areas in job growth adding 13, 700 jobs over the past year. Andrew Fitzgerald, the senior vice president of strategy and research, workers are moving to the Baton Rouge area to fill  some of the s58-thousand construction jobs available while locals are getting the training needed to join the workforce.

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