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No, not video games, but gambling. He envisions a U-shaped section of downtown New Orleans being converted into a gaming zone, with hotels in the zone being able to convert themselves into Vegas-style casinos. There's one casino there now, Harrah's, and it's reportedly suffered financial problems as well as being controversial.

Nagin said he had approached Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco about the plan and offered to split the tax revenues, a figure he said could approach the $150 million neighboring Mississippi received annually.

The gambling zone proposal would need the approval of the city council and the state legislature.

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