Our lawmakers in Madison have been hard at work this week debating important topics, conducting important meetings and holding important public hearings. All on the issue...
Our political parties don’t agree on much, but bipartisan support appears to be growing for banning members of Congress from stock trading. This comes on the...
We have said it many times. Our democracy functions best when more people vote. That premise has taken a hit when a Wisconsin judge ruled last...
We all have a hard day at work sometimes. Those days when we can’t seem to get everything done, when the day lasts longer than we...
It is the end of an era in local radio today. Longtime Mid-West Family DJ Samantha Strong officially retires at the end of her show today....
Sometimes things just don’t line up. That is certainly true on some La Crosse streets. Take one of the city’s most recently improved road, Second Street...
I recently read an article that posed an interesting question. What if politicians couldn’t lie? What if they were required to tell the truth? We aren’t...
When there is a big job to tackle, it’s best to get a head start. That is why it is good that the city of La...
One year later and the scars still haven’t healed. In fact, one year after we watched the biggest threat to our democracy in our lifetime, the...
There is no dispute that police departments are having a hard time attracting recruits. It is hardly a new issue. In fact, there have been fewer...
Those pushing audits of the recent presidential election argue that such doublechecks are needed to “restore integrity to our elections.” In fact, according to the National...
The common logic in politics is that it is easier to run for an open seat than to take on an incumbent. That may not be...
Nobody knows what 2022 will bring. But one woman thinks she has a pretty good idea. Her name is Marian Salzman, and she is a leading...
Policies don’t carry much weight if they don’t have to be followed. Yet that is the case when it comes to police wearing body cameras. We’ve...
What is it about politics that makes it such a powerful drug? People who enter the political arena can’t seem to get enough of it, and...
Finally, some progress from Foxconn. Three years after breaking ground at its facility in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, the Taiwanese company has created enough jobs to qualify...
Here we go again. Another Covid Christmas. We had hoped we would be out of the woods by now, but instead the Omicron variant of the...
Imagine if you were behind bars. What would keep you going through the darkest days? Probably correspondence with family and friends. That could include hearing a...
So much for building back better. Instead of finding a huge environmental and spending bill under the tree this Christmas, democrats in Washington are getting a...
We had hoped it would be over by now. Instead, we are dealing with a rise in the Omicron variant, with case numbers rising again and...