Yesterday in La Crosse
The fight was against Hillary-Care, 23 years ago
In 1994, First Lady Hillary Clinton was promoting a national health-care program, which came to be called “Hillary-Care.” Mrs. Clinton had a telephone conference call with citizens who had questions about the reform plan. Galen Humphrey of Galesville was one of the callers. Humphrey said his step-mother had breast cancer, and had been denied some insurance coverage, and he supported the plan to require employers to provide health care benefits. The plan was defeated.
The La Crosse Center was talking about hockey again, just after the basketball Catbirds moved to Pittsburgh. An investor from Minnesota spoke to the center board about a hockey league which would offer to bring a team to La Crosse, and buy equipment for the arena to make its own ice rink. The Center never got a hockey team.
Wisconsin, Minnesota, and UW-Green Bay all reached the second round of the NCAA basketball tournament in 1994. None of those schools made it to the Sweet 16. Arkansas won its first NCAA men’s basketball title ever, beating Duke in the final…23 years ago, Yesterday in La Crosse.