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Class of 2011: Send us your artwork!

Attention, high school seniors. The Missoulian is looking for eye-catching artwork to feature on the cover and inside of its June 4 graduation special section.

All entries meeting the following requirements will be considered, and the artist selected for the cover will receive $50.

The artist must be a graduating senior at a western Montana high school [...]

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Kids and sports and the newspaper

This is the time of year when I get nostalgic about watching my kids play T-ball and Little League. I’ve conveniently repressed the memories of shivering in the ever-unpredictable springtime weather, and remember instead how much fun everyone – kids and parents – were having.

I know thousands of folks in western Montana are in the [...]

Wanted: Your home building, remodeling stories

Missoula County Courthouse, 1910

Are you a homeowner, builder, architect or interior designer who would like to show off the home you recently built or renovated?

The Missoulian is looking for stories to share in our upcoming Montana Designs publication.

If you would like to participate, send your contact information and a brief description of the project [...]

‘How about we just pray and be quiet?’

The last time many of her colleagues saw Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, she was reading the First Amendment on the floor of the House.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the [...]

2011 Montana Legislature: Tuna vs. lions

It is the eve of the 2011 Montana Legislature, and here in the Missoulian newsroom we are ready for another epic “Lion vs. Tuna” session. A Democratic governor. A newly elected Republican majority in the House and Senate. Loads of freshman legislators. Loads of hot-button issues.

Thus, the video clip above, with thanks to first-time legislator [...]

Oh so merry! Share your photos of holiday decorations

Santa motors into the holidays in this display on Missoula’s Northside. KURT WILSON/Missoulian

Your assignment for today: Take a photo of the best holiday decorations in your town or neighborhood, for sharing with Missoulian readers.

We’re assembling an interactive map and slideshow of western Montana’s best displays. But we can’t do it without your help.

So …. [...]

Remembering Montana’s top news stories of 2010

Hannah DeLaittre, sister of slain Montana Highway Patrolman David DeLaittre, arrives for her brother’s memorial service at Three Forks High School in Three Forks on Tuesday. Photo by Mike Albans/Associated Press

We can’t help ourselves.

As the year draws to a close, we humans feel the need to look back and consider/evaluate/relive the months just past.

In [...]

No comments on stories about crime, crashes, race or sex

The Janesville (Wisconsin) Gazette has a lot in common with the Missoulian – especially on the web.

We both attract about 4 million pageviews per month to our websites, and many thousands of online comments.

We are both troubled by the increasingly angry, disrespectful and oftentimes profane nature of those comments – which often begin on topic, [...]

Getting it right, and fixing it when we don't

Corrections are no laughing matter.

When newspapers make mistakes – in print and on their websites – it’s serious stuff. We know that at the Missoulian and work hard to attend to every error reported by our readers and sources.

We want to get everything right, of course, but newspaper reporters and editors are humans after all [...]

Mr. X makes HOLE IN ONE at Larchmont!!!!

So let’s say you played hooky from work, and went golfing.

And – what are the odds? – you made a HOLE IN ONE!!!!!

And then the golf course wanted to tell the newspaper about your hole in one so everyone in town would know.

Including your boss.

Hmmmmmmmm.

Thus came the fax to the Missoulian newsroom late yesterday afternoon [...]