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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Richard Fausset / The Bulletin
April 7, 2009
NEW ORLEANS — This city is a rarity in 2009: a place full of hard hats and big building projects and subcontractors roaring around in pickup trucks. A city where home prices have dipped only slightly, and where the unemployment rate is 5.3 percent — compared with 8.1 percent....