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Welcome to the redesigned site of The Lens. We hope you like what you see here, and we want to hear your thoughts on the effort -- positive or negative. Please email Managing Editor Steve Beatty at sbeatty@TheLensNola.org. We'll do our best to incorporate your feedback to make this site the best it can be.
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