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Author: Ariella Cohen

If at first you don't succeed … Developer vows to re-bid Auditorium makeover plan

May 5, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

City contracts proving hard to monitor as electronic routing system is overhauled

May 5, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

A year after Nagin, frustration mounts over continuing delays in post-Katrina projects

May 4, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Iberville developer eyes Lafitte Greenway linear park for obligatory off-site housing

April 28, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Prior owner of 1 demolished "Treme" house says city seized double he was trying to fix

April 15, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

If city had asked, "Treme" producers would have chipped in on restoration of doubles

April 14, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

One year after BP oil spill, The Lens & WWOZ want to hear your stories

April 12, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

A week before hospital groundbreaking, Vitter amps up opposition in letter to HUD

April 11, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

City Council hops aboard plan to extend streetcar service to Bywater's far edge

April 7, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

'Reinventing' New Orleans? Landrieu team steers dwindling recovery dollars to humdrum projects

April 4, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019
Despite Mayor Mitch Landrieu's lofty rhetoric about reinventing the New Orleans, most discretionary federal grant money is going toward rebuilding streets and buildings.

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