Recent Developments
Allen and his nephew Alan Tish, general manager, ran the afternoon daily. It was acquired by Jefferson-Pilot in 1969-1970. James H. Hale became publisher in 1970. He moved to Clearwater, Florida, to take over Jefferson-Pilot's paper in that city, the Clearwater Sun. The Times then moved to its present location on Esperanza Drive in north Laredo.
Baker was succeeded as publisher by Marc A. Hoy, who came to Laredo from Beaumont in 1979. Hoy was followed by Mike Herrera.
The acquisition of several Texas properties by the Hearst Corporation included the Laredo Times in 1984. The Times shifted from afternoon to morning publication, and thereafter Frank Bannock, the president of Hearst, chose a former colleague at the San Antonio Light, William B. Green, to leave the Edwardsville Intelligencer in Edwardsville, Illinois, to become both publisher and CEO of the Laredo Morning Times. Green took over in the midst of a brewing newspaper war between the Times and the Laredo News, a local family newspaper. The News subsequently ceased publication. The Times acquired the assets of the News, and it remains the only daily newspaper in Laredo.
Elizabeth Sorrell, the acclaimed LMT society columnist from 1979–1994, was a former educator who previously taught for forty-eight years in Laredo. Odie Arambula once declared her the "best known" person in town.
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