by Ellen Garrison | Mar 7, 2014 | Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley might be a 79 year-old Republican, but he knows how to connect to young American voters better than many of his younger colleagues — via Twitter. “People make fun of him because he has typos and he has weird misspellings and it...
by Rachel Morello | Feb 14, 2012 | Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON – Voters using Twitter from their phones in the last three days have seen such trending topics as Grammy updates, budget news and everything in between. They may have read tweets from their favorite celebrity or news outlet. Or perhaps even from Rick...
by James Arkin | Feb 14, 2012 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Social media sites have exploded in recent years, dramatically transforming the way politicians operate – and the way the media covers them. And according to several political reporters speaking at a panel Tuesday, Twitter and Facebook not only benefit...
by Mattias Gugel | Jan 24, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON – What is “the blueprint for an economy that’s built to last” anyway? Democrats and Republicans didn’t even wait for the State of the Union address to end Tuesday night before they began sparring over President Obama’s key talking point. Both the White...
by Peter Larson | Feb 2, 2011 | Health & Science, National Security, Politics
If you’re having as much trouble as we are keeping up with Google’s realtime results for keywords such as Egypt and Mubarak, here are a few accounts to follow through the rest of the week that are being updated by journalists on the ground there. 1....
