In 1977, five members of the La Crosse school board were fighting for their board seats, in the face of a recall campaign. The board angered...
Wisconsin’s top law enforcer is standing up for access to public records. Attorney General Brad Schimel is issuing a reminder to all state and local government...
La Crosse Mayor Pat Zielke predicted in 1992 that the north-south corridor idea was “dead” for the decade after Plan 5 was voted down by the...
It is another example of how poor a job the state of Wisconsin is doing in fixing our roads. The city of La Crosse could join...
Fifty years ago, August 8th of 1968, Richard Nixon accepted the Republican presidential nomination, for the second time, when the GOP held its convention in Miami...
It is an issue that has seen a seismic shift in public opinion in recent years. But despite the growing public support for the idea of...
For much of 1980, Fort McCoy housed thousands of people who had fled Cuba in a massive boatlift. Some of them had been prisoners released from...
Our elected officials deserve plenty of blame for the state of politics in America today. They make promises they can’t or won’t keep. They lie about...
Leave it to the politicians to figure out how to do more. For themselves. In Wisconsin, our legislature draws a full-time salary while spending only a...
A John Doe investigation of illegal gambling led to a fine for a past president of La Crosse’s First National Bank in 1974. George Milne was...
It is one of the cornerstones of our democracy. But it is under attack like never before. A free press is vital to our country, but...
Today’s college students routinely carry laptop computers and smartphones. But in 1961, high-tech teaching equipment used at La Crosse State included overhead projectors and reel-to-reel tape...
Sometimes, there are just no easy answers. No answers that satisfy everyone. That is when compromise is needed. And compromise appears to be the key to...
The Rivoli Theater in La Crosse is still in business today, but the Tivoli restaurant off Highway 35 is not. Both were busy places in 1970. ...
More evidence that states shouldn’t be handing out taxpayer money to companies which probably don’t need it anyway. We’ve heard about the $4.5 billion in tax...
In 1982, an executive with La Crosse’s cable TV franchise…then called Group W…was insulted that the city council wanted to review his company’s rates. Terry Myering...
No matter what President Trump may claim, it is clear that Russians made attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. And it is...
In the summer of 1966, you could take a long weekend vacation to Niagara Falls by train, on the Milwaukee Road. The railroad promoted a four-day...
Increasingly, police across the country are wearing body cameras. Yet the laws governing what and when the camera’s footage should be made public remain a hodgepodge....
La Crosse’s city department heads have put together a big wish list of projects they want to undertake as part of the next city budget. It...