As I See It

Just when it felt like we had put the big campaign season behind us, and had started to prepare for the holidays, there’s another political campaign to talk about…at La Crosse City Hall. Time for the next election for mayor, and we’ve just learned it’s going to be another open race. Our former WIZM co-worker, […]

For over 40 years, the U.S. Department of Education has been a blackhole for taxpayer dollars. We’ve thrown billions into the system, yet reading and math scores are plummeting, literacy rates are barely hanging on, and we’re lagging behind other countries in STEM. How much money would you throw into a rusty old car before […]

As a reminder as you start or end your day today… Today is National Seat Belt Day in the United States.  As technology has advanced, we have progressed from standard lap belts to the new harnesses and airbags.  Back then, we were told and told others to buckle up but we didn’t have the buzzing […]

Before the election, I made a joke that the cable networks were so obsessed with counting down to the big day that, after the election, they would start counting how many days since we had voted. I haven’t seen that yet, but I did see one cable anchor eager to tell us that it’s 16 […]

We’re well into November, and the elections are behind us. Around the region, the signs of the holiday season are starting to appear. Downtown La Crosse has its big lighted snowflakes in place on the streetlights, and the Rotary Lights display is being assembled in Riverside Park. That’s a 30-year tradition now, with a traditional […]

Kamala Harris is now calling for unity. Isn’t that adorable? This is the same party that turned Trump’s presidency into their own personal blood sport, dragging out every weapon in the federal arsenal, the FBI, the DOJ, the IRS. They used them, like it was their own political hit squad. Heck, if they could have […]

So, now that the voting is done for this big election, what did you consider the most important issue affecting your vote? One issue that rose to the top quite frequently was ‘high gas prices.’ Does that mean lots of Americans assume the price of filling up your car largely depends on who’s in the […]

As I See It…I’m Brad Williams. During this campaign season in Wisconsin, I’ve been seeing ads criticizing some candidates…like a U.S. Senator, and a state legislator…for being in office too long. The message is, a politician who stays on the job too many years just cares about themselves, and not about you, so replace those […]

Wisconsin has a massive $4.6 billion budget surplus, and legislators in Madison are already more excited about spending your money than a kid’s first time in a puppy, fireworks, and candy store. But here’s a crazy idea: Give it back to the hardworking Wisconsinites you took it from. As I See It is a daily […]

Besides the costume choices each year, what has really changed when we celebrate Halloween?  Remember when it was against the rules to have Halloween on any other night but the 31st?  And you really weren’t supposed to start until after it was dark?  And was the cutoff time determined when candy was gone or when […]

A question for Wisconsin voters: Do you like living in a battleground state? For years now, political experts have talked a lot about a handful of states that can swing a presidential race. So much, that it seems we’ve been lumped together into a superstate: MichiganPennsylvaniaWisconsin. I think it’s pretty cool that people around the […]

Here’s a warning for everybody…we have to set our clocks back an hour next weekend. That’s how we play the Daylight Saving game in America. It’s been getting dark around 6 p.m. this month, and as of next Sunday, when we return to standard time, sunset will be back before 5 p.m., bringing us early […]

Could we please be done with this election season, already? In the closing days of a campaign that apparently began on election night four years ago, and when we’re told the issues should be things like gas and groceries, now we get another G, the Grimace. McDonald’s is the latest place where Donald Trump seemingly […]

This was a difficult editorial to write. I prefer to write about important issues and offer my opinion about them. But today, it is about me, as this is my final editorial on WIZM. After 35 years with Mid-West Family, today is my final day on the job as I am about to begin retirement. […]

Casting a ballot used to be so simple. Now we have to jump through hoops to exercise our democratic right. In Wisconsin, absentee ballot drop boxes have been ruled legal by the Supreme Court, but many municipalities, including La Crosse, have failed to return the drop boxes for the upcoming election. Other communities have returned […]

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris agree on at least one thing. Both want to change the rules and get rid of filibusters. But both are wrong. The use of filibusters may seem like a tactic for obstruction, and in some cases that is true. Ted Cruz once spent 21 hours on the floor of the […]

It sounds good. Perhaps too good to be true. But the state of Wisconsin is reporting a marked increase in student’s test scores across the state. The latest numbers show that 51% of Wisconsin public school students were measured at being proficient in English and Language Arts. That is up significantly from last year, when […]

 In baseball, you wouldn’t pull the starting pitcher before the reliever is warmed up and ready to go. You probably wouldn’t throw away an old wallet until you had a new one to replace it. And you probably wouldn’t dump your cell phone provider until you had selected another. Why then should we dump the […]