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Reports on news and developments concerning businesses in New Orleans, Louisiana, as of April 12, 2004. Total sales tax collection of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office for March; Mayor C. Ray Nagin's support of a resolution to review legislation that would restructure the Sewerage and Water Board or create a Sewerage and Water Board agency; United States Mint's released of a nickel commemorating the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase.

Presents updates of relevance to business in the United States as of February 15, 2000. Includes reopening of the Interstate 10/12 highway; Foiled casino robbery attempt in Biloxi, Mississippi; Slated launching of Louisiana's first commemorative quarter in the year 2002.

The article presents a remarks of Lieutenant General Carl Strock, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regarding the commemorative coin for the members of Task Force Unwatering for helping drain the floods from New Orleans, Louisiana.

The article focuses on the historic places of Louisiana from 1812, when the prime cut of that vast Louisiana Territory became U.S. 18th state. It reports on the hunting grounds that a traveler could go to including Poste des Natchitoches and Prudhomme-Rouquier. It reports on the first burial place of Cajun exiles the river's Acadian Coast and offers information on the Graugnard Farms Plantation House. INSET: BEST BETS.