The deadline has passed, but Governor Walker still hopes to be able to provide more corporate welfare. Kimberly Clark announced it would be closing its plant...
The #1 song on the week before Halloween of 1962 was “Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett. In 1991, Pickett performed the song at an outdoor...
In 1951, La Crosse city leaders were discussing an improvement plan with a total cost over $10 million. A new high school to replace Central on...
If you are like most employees, if you have a lot of work to do, you may have to stay later, or perhaps come in on...
Sometimes it is good to press the pause button. The contentious hearing before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, designed to determine whether Brett Kavanaugh should...
In the fall of ’79, Michael’s Cerise on Ward Avenue was advertising that customers could “learn how to disco in 3 lessons.” The lessons in the...
The Brett Kavanaugh controversy of 2018 has been compared to the charges made against Clarence Thomas, when he was being considered for the Supreme Court in...
Happy Oktoberfest! The annual celebration of our German heritage has now begun in La Crosse, and for many people that means fun. Lots of fun. A...
Gardner Withrow of La Crosse was a former railroad man when he first went to Congress in 1931. Withrow served four terms in the House as...
Tailgating is a Wisconsin tradition. But under some changes being considered by lawmakers in Madison, your ability to do so, at least if alcohol is being...
When elections approach, politicians tend to do things they wouldn’t normally do. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has been cutting money for public education during his 8...
In early 1966, author John Howard Griffin spoke in La Crosse about his experiences posing as a black man in the South, as described in his...
Sometimes, politicians make things more difficult than they need to be. For example, Governor Scott Walker has ordered his Attorney General to sue the federal government...
The trade war continues to escalate. And it is about to get much more real. Already we have seen the impacts of President Trump’s decision to...
Former university president Rexford Mitchell died on the 4th of July in 1973. He was 77. Mitchell holds the longevity record among the people who have...
In 2013, the La Crosse park department was debating whether to keep the name Hood Park on public property along 5th Avenue South. There was a...
During summer vacation in 1974, vandals tore apart the IMC, the library area, at Spence Elementary in La Crosse. The damage to the 10-thousand square foot...
We already know what kind of shape Wisconsin’s roads are in. Now we are finding out just how much it is costing us to drive on...
What was making the news on 8-8-68? Take a trip to yesterday in La Crosse. On August 8th of 1968, Richard Nixon accepted the Republican presidential...
It is a victory for transparency, and for our democracy. The Supreme Court this week declined to get involved in a long-running case involving those who...