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...
There are plenty of issues on which to campaign in the Wisconsin Governor’s race. Whether the Foxconn deal is good for Wisconsin taxpayers, what to do...
Two clues were all that a brother and sister needed to find the Oktoberfest medallion in 1968…yesterday in La Crosse. Medallion hunters in 1968 were told...
The fight is currently in the courts. But a better battle would likely be at the polling booths. The United States Supreme Court was the most...
In 1974, La Crosse County clerk Russ Fiedler reported that he had earned more than 53-hundred dollars in the previous year in fees from licenses...
The headline is frightening. “Wisconsin corrections officials don’t have current info for nearly 3000 sex offenders.” That is a scary thought, but the headline may be...
We’re told the Wisconsin state budget is in good shape. The books are balanced, they tell us. We even ran a surplus, so the state provided...
In October of 2008, Arizona Senator John McCain and his wife Cindy landed at the La Crosse airport, for a campaign rally roughly a month before...
He was one of a kind, and he will be missed. U.S. Senator John McCain was an American hero, who lived in service to his country....
In 1977, the town of Medary tried to incorporate…partly to take advantage of development that was expected to follow the opening of a new shopping mall...
It is not only the biggest public subsidy to a private employer in Wisconsin history, it is the biggest in U.S. history as well. Wisconsin taxpayers...
The downpour of August 18th and 19th, 2007 in the La Crosse area was the biggest local weather story of that year, according to the National...
No one likes to hear about possible job losses. But in business, as economic climates and consumer’s tastes change, sometimes job losses are inevitable. Unless the...
The Swinger was a new Polaroid camera, not a girl…but in 1966, “The Polaroid Girl” was on hand at K-Mart in La Crosse to demonstrate the...
The investigation into possible collusion and obstruction by President Trump has taken many turns. None more shocking than Trump’s new claims that he could take over...
On August 21st of 2017, a total solar eclipse passed over the U.S. for the first time in nearly 40 years. Several states from the west...
Governor Scott Walker likes to paint himself as a rather frugal guy. Remember the campaign commercials when he first ran for Governor? He ran ads boasting...