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The Advocate relaunched its New Orleans edition August 18, 2013, as The New Orleans Advocate and later added The Acadiana Advocate, a third edition serving Lafayette and the Acadiana region. [12] On April 9, 2018, the holding company for The New Orleans Advocate purchased the New Orleans weekly Gambit and bestofneworleans.com. [13] [14]
The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate [2] (commonly called The Times-Picayune or the T-P) is an American newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana.Ancestral publications of other names date back to January 25, 1837.
Samuel Bernard Nunez Jr., (January 27, 1930 – January 15, 2012), was a Louisiana politician and businessman from Chalmette, the seat of St. Bernard Parish in the New Orleans suburbs. From 1964 to 1969, Nunez was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. From 1969 to 1996, the Democrat Nunez was a state senator.
Bel was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Carmelita Killelea and Clyde F. Bel Sr., a politician. [1] He attended the Jesuit High School, graduating in 1951. [1] He then attended Louisiana State University. [1] In 1968, Bel was elected for the 28th district of the Louisiana House of Representatives. [3]
Later in 2013 the New Orleans edition became The New Orleans Advocate. In 2019, the papers merged to form The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate. The New Orleans Tribune and The Louisiana Weekly serve the city with an African American focus. The Clarion Herald is the official newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans.
John Georges (Greek: Υιάννης Γεωργής) (born October 16, 1960) is an American businessman from New Orleans, who owns Louisiana's two largest newspapers and online news sites. He formerly served on the Louisiana Board of Regents , the body which supervises higher education in his native state.
Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson (January 17, 1936 – June 26, 2024) was an American politician who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1994 to 2002 and on the New Orleans City Council from 1990 to 1994, 2002 to 2006, and 2007 to 2013. She had been Honorary consul of Lithuania in New Orleans from December 2014 to her death. [1]
They established a home, business and studio in Uptown New Orleans, which continues to be identified as Maison Baquet, the home of his personal archives. Baquet was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer in 2008 [14] and would die from the disease after a seven-year battle. A devout Catholic, he credited this experience with deepening his faith. [15]