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We have reGREEN THUMB: A detail-rich block on Grand Route St. John Page 10 | COOL STUFF: Luxurious dorm decor Page 8 cruited more than 100 former Times-Picayune carriers to handle the additional work, joining the 80 contractors who have been delivering The Advocate. If you are an Advocate subscriber, you don’t need to change a thing. The next thing to know about The TimesPicayune | The New Orleans Advocate is that it’s produced by reporters, photographers and editors who have been providing our community with great journalism for a generation. The publisher, editor and managing editors learned their BY SAM KARLIN Staff writer trade at The Times-Picayune and were part of Last month, state Rep. Sherman Mack became the team that won Pulitzer prizes for coverage the official House GOP-endorsed candidate for speakof Hurricane Katrina. Writers like Stephanie er, but the race has only heated up since then, with Grace, Nell Nolan and Keith Spera, who started the two top candidates, both Republicans, ratcheting Mack at The Times-Picayune and joined The New Orup the behind-closed-doors campaigning for the job. leans Advocate, will see their bylines alongside With House Republicans split between supporting Times-Picayune writers like Dan Gill, Michelle Mack and the other top candidate, state Rep. Clay Hunter, Doug MacCash, Ann Maloney and HerSchexnayder, the next speaker could be decided by how bie Teope. Our comics and puzzles pages will Democrats break between Schexnayder the top two candidates. expand, and we will feature all of the longtime ä See SPEAKER, page 14A Advocate regulars, like “Peanuts” and “Garfield,” and new strips from the Times-Picayune, CAL SPORTS MEDIA PHOTO BY BY KYLE OKITA Tulane cornerback Thakarius Keyes, back right, and linebacker Malik Lawal lift the championship trophy like “Dustin” and “Mutts.” We have two dozen as the team celebrates its win over Southern Miss on Saturday in the Armed Forces Bowl at Amon G. Carter writers and photographers from The TimesStadium in Fort Worth, Texas. A slow start couldn’t stop Tulane from winning back-to-back bowl games for the Picayune on our staff. Overall, firstwe timehave in schoolmore history. Justin McMillan passed for 215 yards and three touchdowns, and the Green Wave a second-half onslaught to race past the Golden Eagles and cap its season with a victory. than 120 journalists coveringused Louisiana, keeping ä Game coverage, Sports 7C, 12C you updated through our print editions, through NOLA.com and via social media. Finally, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate is locally owned. Dathel and John Georges purchased The Advocate in 2013 Tr u m p , m e a n w h i l e , Iraqi capital ended Satur- elite Quds Force and masBY QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA INSIDE and The Times-Picayune and warned that the U.S. too was day evening with a series of termind of SARAH EL DEEBbecause this year they ready to respond if Tehran ä With hours’ notice, rockets that were launched its regional Associated Press strikes back. 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Labrador puppies Indie New Orleans musical legends Fats Domino, from left, Mac ‘Dr. John’ Rebennack and Dave Bartholomew sit together in 2014 at and Touro are training at Big Beat, a documentary film about the sound that Bartholomew and Domino created in the 1950s. the premiere of ‘The Touro Infirmary to’become service dogs for veterans.
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plastic work badge, is Touro. BY SUZANNE PFEFFERLE TAFUR “Patients and staff are overContributing writer whelmingly happy to see him,” One of Touro Infirmary’s newest said Maggie Homer, a speech therapist at Touro Infirmary who’s employees is a bit of a celebrity. in charge of raising the pup. When he moseys “It can take us 15 minutes to get through the health inside the hospital,” she said. “Evcare center’s Prytania erybody is calling him, and he’s Street campus, people looking everywhere.” rush toward him, hopThen, she said, Touro gets tired ing for a quick cuddle. ä To see and “splats” on his belly. But his uniform clearly states, “Please don’t a video of pet me, I’m working” the pups, Veterans and dogs — so they smile and go to nola. The canine eventually makes coo instead. his way into the Touro Rehabilicom. That’s because this tation Center, where he works recent hire is a frisky, alongside fellow Lab Indie, 3 4-month-old yellow Labrador re- months old. triever, training to become a therBoth puppies arrived at Touro apy dog. His name, stamped on his through a partnership with Unit-
ed States Veterans Service Dogs, a Marrero-based organization that pairs veterans with physical and mental disabilities with a service dog. “The USVSD breeds dogs to become service dogs, and then they find volunteers to be puppy raisers,” said Maggie Watson, Indie’s puppy raiser and a physical therapist at Touro. Cody Bellanger, the CEO and director of training and client services for the veterans organization, was familiar with Touro’s Rehabilitation Center and thought the facility would be an ideal setting for a program that pairs Touro’s staff with puppies.
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Mac “Dr. John” Rebennack received the New Orleans equivalent of a state funeral. During his June 22 memorial service at the opulent Orpheum Theater, local music royalty sang his praises. Mayor LaToya Cantrell saluted him as a “beloved son” of the city. The grand secondline that followed, both formal and festive, shut down Canal Street. But the prospect that he would one day merit such a send-off was, for the first ABOVE: Maggie Watson, left, with half of his life, unlikely. Indie, and Maggie Homer, with Touro, use positive, rewardsbased training to teach the puppies basic commands. LEFT: Touro wears a vest and official name tag, alerting humans to his status as a service dog in training.
For 34 years, Rebennack was a self-described “dope fiend.” Over the decades, his heroin addiction led him down many dark roads. Crime, violence, hospitalizations, arrests, affairs, divorces, dirty dealing, sheer craziness — he was familiar with all of it. He could have easily ended up like so many of his heroes and friends: a hugely talented New Orleans musician who died young and faded into obscurity. But in 1989, he got clean. Over the next three decades, he emerged as one of the most beloved and respected representa-
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Record number of women running for office BY MARK BALLARD
At least 20 women have nobody is predicting that announced their candida- outcome, the Legislature cies. Along with 22 female still will have one of the nation’s lowest ratios of women to men in the nation. But Republicans and Demthis fall that Democrats and that 42 women — more than ocrats agree that enough cans were asked to identify study was published last week everBebefore — will stand for women are positioned to win are inpredicting the journal Translational with aRepublicans political party and then Medicine. election on the Oct. 12 ballot. rate the extentchange to which six to change the dynamics. a sea in havioral the state’s “Policymaking is political at factors such as industry influthe end day,” saidThose Jonaences,lawmaking evidence and budget numbers are exMaking an impact is a body byof the the “should have” and “currently than Purtle, study author and low hurdle as the Louisiana votes counted. assistant professor pected of health to grow before canhave”time on the the decisions madeare management and policy in officially sign up in by representatives in the U.S. Legislature has never had Forty-seven ofDrexel’s the Legisdidates Dornsife School of Congress. 144atseats areHealth. open August. The lature’s survey also looked the Public influence doctor groups and citä See WOMEN, page 8A Even because of term ä See AGREE, page izens had on health policy. The limits. 2D if they all win, and
So many women already incumbents who are runWhat Republicans and Democrats have signed up to run for ning for reelection or in the agree upon may surprise you other chamber, that means the Louisiana Legislature
There seems to be very little that Republicans and Democrats agree upon in these times of harsh political discourse, but a Drexel University researcher may have found one: the role of scientific evidence in developing and shaping health care. In a 2018 survey, 532 Ameri-
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Previous studies have found that groups that represent doctors, like the American Medical Association, are extremely powerful in shaping healthy policy, but a new study found that doctors were not thought to have much influence.
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