The Daily Comet

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Daily Comet
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet

Owner The New York Times Company
Publisher Miles Forrest
Editor Keith Magill
Founded 1889
Headquarters Thibodaux, LA, United States

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The Daily Comet is a newspaper in Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States. It covers Lafourche, Assumption, the west bank of St. James and the northern part of Terrebonne parishes

It began publishing in 1889 as the weekly Lafourche Comet. It is the only paper currently published in America named "Comet". Its publisher, a Democrat, selected the name "Comet" because the rival Republican newspaper was named the Star. The publisher reasoned that a comet is brighter than a star.