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Fair Grounds president Tim Bryant optimistic about future of racing in New Orleans | NOLA.com

It's the offseason at the Fair Grounds, but Tim Bryant has been busy. Besides getting to know his staff, he's learning about all facets of the operation - racing, off-track betting and slot machines.
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Judge asked to stop New Orleans hospital projects | Forbes.com

The hospital expansions into the Lower Mid-City district, where structures date back to the 1800s, are a flash-point in post-Katrina New Orleans. Preservationists say the construction of two hospitals to replace ones damaged by Hurricane Katrina would wipe out a historic New Orleans neighborhood, and they want a federal judge to block the projects…
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Mid-City teaching hospital plans boosted by Charity Hospital arbitration ruling | NOLA.com

A federal arbitration panel awarded Louisiana $475 million Wednesday for hurricane-related damage to Charity Hospital

The $475 million brings the state more than halfway to the financing it needs for building a new hospital on a lower Mid-City tract bordered by South Claiborne Avenue, Canal Street, Galvez Street and Tulane Avenue.

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Hopes of Mid-City bonfire extinguished | New Orleans FOX 8 Live WVUE-TV Channel 8

The traditional New Year’s Eve bonfire in Mid-City looks to have been extinguished this year, not by city officials, but by the neighbors who fought so hard to keep it alive in 2008.
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Mid-City Post Office Taken Off Closure List - Money News Story | WDSU New Orleans

The Jeff Davis Parkway facility in Mid-City was the only metro area post office on the original list of about 700 sites to be closed. The U.S. Postal Service is considering major cuts to reduce expenses and help balance its budget.
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New Orleans: the return of the best Bud's Broiler there ever will be


Bud's Broiler on City Park Avenue, before Da Storm

Photo from YatPundit's personal blog (ebranley.com), both a conversation-starter and a good reminder of a lot of fun times.  Bud's Broiler is, of course, a local burger chain here in metro New Orleans.  This one is located at the corner of City Park Avenue and Conti Street, in Mid-City...

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Degas House: The New Orleans experience through the eyes of a genius

For four-and-a-half months in 1872-73, a young Edgar Degas, not yet the world-famous French impressionist, lived at his maternal uncle’s house at 2306 Esplanade Avenue, just outside of New Orleans’ French Quarter. While there, Degas thrived in the local culture and painted 18 paintings. He also wrote several letters home to his family in France, detailing life in this exotic American city...
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Jazz Restoration Society hopes to breathe new life into historic Halfway House | NOLA.com


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Jazz historian Bobby McIntyre stands in the middle of the burned-out shell of the old Halfway House dance hall on the bank of the New Basin Canal at City Park Avenue.
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Lafitte Corridor Greenway Tour shows what could be - NOLA.com

The 200 people who showed up for Saturday's walking tour of the Lafitte Corridor Greenway came from all over town, a few with dogs and children in tow. They were old and young, rail-thin and round, wearing T-shirts, jeans and sundresses.

The city is in the final stages of negotiating a design and construction contract for the greenway with Design Workshop of Austin, Texas, said Bart Everson, a board member of Friends of Lafitte Corridor, a nonprofit group that has been pushing for the greenway since 2006.
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Golf complex in City Park approved | News for New Orleans, Louisiana | Sports | News and Weather for New Orleans | wwltv.com

The approved master plan calls for golf courses to be built in two phases: a new 18-hole course, club house, driving range and support services, at a cost of $24 million; phase two brings another 18-hole course along with a 9-hole shot course.
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