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Yup. Mrs. Abb & I have been going to NO the past several years for the restaurants and museums. We go in the spring, after Mardi Gras, but before the temps get oppressive. Thanksgiving week would be good weather, but the Bayou Classic week has been like this for years.

Grambling is about a dozen miles down Interstate 20 from where I live in Ruston, LA. Nothing but a sinkhole into which taxpayer money is poured.

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http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/11/bourbon_street_shooting_victim_5.html#incart_most-commented_crime_article

Bourbon Street shooting victims: 8 men, 2 women ages 20 to 37, NOPD says

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/11/bourbon_street_shooting_occurr.html#incart_most-commented_crime_article

Bourbon Street shooting occurred despite ‘robust police presence,’ officials say