Opinion

Readers' letters: BBC director defends changes to radio schedule

I’m sorry to read that your correspondent Bob Watson took exception to my recent evidence at the Scottish Parliament, but to describe Hayley Valentine (Director, BBC Scotland) and me as “corporate ...
Alameda Post on MSNOpinion

Letters to the editor for February 6, 2026

In this week's Letters to the Editor, Cindy Acker asks for support so that "Words That Made the Difference: Brown v Board of ...

Letters to the Editor: Trust, transparency and the power of citizens

Readers share concerns about legislation undermining voter rights, federal immigration enforcement tactics and the state of ...

Florida pushes mandatory cursive writing lessons so children can read the Constitution, grandparents' letters

The bill would have students from 2nd to 5th grade learn how to write in cursive and then be tested on what they learned at ...

Man who lost brother to suicide sees 400K letters written in two weeks as part of life-saving campaign

Ben West, 25, lost his younger brother Sam to suicide on January 21, 2018, aged 15, after finding him unconscious.
Nature

How learning handwriting trains the brain: the science behind the cursive wars

Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.
The Stanford Daily

At On Call, students write letters to Dean Satz to ‘save creative writing’

Using pen, paper and an electronic Smith-Corona typewriter, students wrote over 50 letters to Humanities and Sciences Dean Debra Satz asking her to reverse the decision to cycle out creative writing ...