Landrieu leads New Orleans with optimism, realism | Bloomberg

Mitch Landrieu thought he knew the problems that awaited him when he was elected mayor of New Orleans in a landslide last February. There was the spotty, prolonged recovery from Hurricane Katrina, which exacerbated long-standing problems of blight and crumbling infrastructure; a $60 million budget deficit; a police department awash in scandal; and an explosion of violent crime...

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