The reaction to complaints of police brutality and racism has been swift. People have gathered in La Crosse and around the world calling for change in...
Predicting the future is hard. But hindsight is 20/20. Except, apparently, for U.S. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. Johnson was critical of efforts to slow the...
Nearly everyone agrees that police who misbehave need to be punished. But some want to go farther, by defunding police departments across the country. They argue...
There is no question Americans are hurting from the economic impact of the coronavirus. The unemployment rate is expected to reach or exceed 20%, a rate...
What will college look like come fall? No one, not even those in charge of making those decisions, know the answer yet. Most universities finished the...
Let’s show them how it’s done La Crosse. Another rally is planned tonight in La Crosse over the death of George Floyd and racial injustice overall....
What is the proper way to respond to a pandemic? There are no shortage of opinions about that. Shut everything down, or go about business as...
Protests are nothing new in the United States. But it seems clear we still aren’t very good at determining how to deal with them. After the...
Voting from home is about to get easier in Wisconsin. Maybe. The Wisconsin Elections Commission has approved a plan to send absentee ballot applications to Wisconsin’s...
Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce development was overwhelmed with calls and applications for unemployment when so many lost their jobs amid the...
It is an obvious sign of the effects of the pandemic. The homeless, crowding into shelters and city parks. With the pandemic savaging the economy and...
Living amid the pandemic has been like living under a dark cloud. It seems ominous and threatening. But apparently it is true that every dark cloud...
Now is not the time to be petty. When lives are at stake, it makes sense to put aside partisan differences and focus on the real...
Some time ago, wearing a mask in public likely meant you were getting ready to rob a train, or a stagecoach. Suddenly, wearing a mask has...
Clearly, we can’t count on our politicians to keep us safe during a pandemic. President Donald Trump made clear early on that the federal government would...
One thing every American should be able to agree on is that in our democracy all people are provided an equal opportunity to cast a ballot....
They said all along that reopening our economy would be more like turning up the dimmer than flipping a switch. So much for that. The Supreme...
That was a rather abrupt about-face. With a ruling by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Wisconsin went from being cautious amid the pandemic to, in the words...
When people are hurting there is a tendency to want to help. We have seen that amid the outbreak of the coronavirus. The federal government has...
La Crosse certainly isn’t alone, but it is in a tough spot. Like many cities, La Crosse is seeing an increase in expenses and a decrease...