A Democratic public service commissioner’s vulgar words could come back to haunt him this morning. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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A second inmate has died this month at the medium security federal prison in Pollock. The Federal Bureau of Prisons says 26-year-old Artavius Burnett was found unresponsive Tuesday morning. This is the fourth death at the facility in Grant Parish since last fall. Burnett was convicted in Tennessee for armed robbery.

Two groups are challenging Entergy’s plan to power a massive Meta artificial intelligence data center in northeast Louisiana. The Alliance for Affordable Energy and the Union of Concerned Scientists are asking the Public Service Commission to deny Entergy’s request to build three gas power plants for the facility. Logan Burke, the executive director of the Alliance for Affordable Energy, says Entergy sidestepped PSC policy.

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Entergy says Meta will significantly offset the costs associated to make service available to the company’s data center and region.

The Louisiana Department of Health is no longer organizing mass vaccination events. Professor Susan Hassig, with the Tulane School of Public Health, says L-D-H is neglecting its responsibility of keeping the public safe…

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Surgeon General Ralph Abraham says vaccination decisions should be made between the patient and the doctor.