Guest View: Writing skills essential in 21st century
The ability to communicate in writing is undoubtedly the most important skill a student will ever learn. However, an absence of challenging reading materials and writing assignments in high school, students' increased use of texting and other forms of electronic communication and teenagers' general apathy have contributed to the national drop in skill use and aptitude according to R. Ferguson, CEO of ACT.
Letter: We are living in a permanent Halloween
Halloween, where yards become planted in gravestones and ghosts and offices appear cobwebbed and spidery to make scary fun… Children love to transform into monsters with big mouths and sharply pointed teeth to scare everyone.
Scary Halloween is enjoyable because it is all in fun....
Device that deciphers writing very useful
A couple of years ago, there was talk about a product on the
Confederate Flag is a Symbol of the South in Battle
You have a lot of nerve comparing the Confederate flag to the
Social Security reform will make the nation stronger
In reading Molly Ivins' column about Social Security it made me
Hollister officials raise accountability for faraway owners
The Hollister City Council takes action against a big





