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Jimmy Fallon: Create your own newspaper on Twitter

On his late-night talk show earlier this week, NBC’s Jimmy Fallon had nothing but praise for Twitter and the way it lets users “make their own newspapers.”

Fallon is a Twitter fanatic, so invited Twitter co-founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone onto the show for on-air high-fives and a quick lesson in the history of the [...]

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Election news and commentary: It’s now or never

The clock is ticking on the November midterm elections, and interest just seems to keep growing. We’ve been inundated by letters to the editor at both the Missoulian and Ravalli Republic – which creates a challenge we love. How do we get all of your thoughts out there before Election Day?

Here’s what we are going [...]

Voters turn to Fox News for election coverage over all others

Bill O’Reilly (left) and Rachel Maddow (right) are included in the poll results. AP Photo

This fall’s campaign season is quickly heating up, and with it voter interest in the mid-term elections. Which makes Monday’s release of new poll findings by Politico.com and George Washington University particularly interesting.

It seems that, at least nationally, most [...]

Campaign 2010: Let the games begin!

It’s Labor Day, and that means the “official” – or at least the traditional – start of the fall campaign season. And while much has been made about Montana’s lack of fiery statewide races this year, there are dozens of very significant local races.

Control of the 2011 Montana Legislature will be decided in each and [...]

The candidate questionnaire delivered by mule train

Here in the newsroom, we’re busy collecting information from the dozens of western Montana legislative candidates whose names will be on November’s general election ballot.

Starting in September, we’ll publish their responses to Q&As – one district at a time for several weeks.

It’s a lengthy and occasionally frustrating process, finding all the candidates and securing their [...]

Grab your ballots! It’s election season

Roy Houseman celebrates with his wife Andrea last November at the Missoula Club, upon hearing that he had unseated Ward 2 Missoula City Councilman John Hendrickson by a wide margin. Photo by MICHAEL GALLACHER/Missoulian

Election season is upon us, and the Missoulian has launched its coverage of candidates and issues.

Beginning in Tuesday’s paper, we’ll get [...]