In 1994, a Coon Valley man wrote to the La Crosse Tribune that La Crosse’s Oktoberfest wasn’t German enough. His problem was with the Oktoberfest button...
It is a sensitive subject for sure, but there couldn’t be a better time for resuming discussions about creating a regional fire department in La Crosse....
Dozens of people got on a bus the other day for a trip around La Crosse County to find out just what conditions our roads are...
In 2006, Wisconsin Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson and associate Justice Ann Walsh Bradley appeared at the Viterbo Fine Arts Center on “Law Day,” answering questions from...
In July of 1981, Britain’s Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at a lavish wedding seen on TV around the world. That same day, the...
It can no longer be debated. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is more concerned about not raising the state’s gas tax than he is in fixing the...
It is clear we need to do a better job looking out for one another. That is because in Wisconsin, and across the country, pedestrian deaths...
Acting La Crosse chief Ray Lichtie was promoted full-time to chief in May of 1977. Lichtie had been in that position since the previous October, when...
It was as swift as it was surprising. The Wisconsin Department of Justice wisely wasted no time in clarifying the rules on hemp farming in Wisconsin....
The La Crosse Queen paddlewheeler was being introduced in 1965. Roy Franz of the Big Indian Boat Lines said the new excursion boat could hold as...
Even for politics, this is a new low. United States Senate hopeful Leah Vukmir of Wisconsin hopes to replace incumbent Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin. And apparently...
A new Wisconsin law is about as clear as the mud in which farmers are planting hemp seeds. Wisconsin lawmakers removed a ban on hemp farming...
Finally, the nation’s longest standing judicial vacancy could be filled. But it should have been done long ago, and it shouldn’t be done this way. The...
“This…is London” was a familiar opening to Edward R. Murrow’s radio reports from England during 1942. Murrow and other CBS reporters, including Charles Collingwood and Eric...
Wisconsin’s open records laws are pretty clear. The public has a right to see the communications of our public officials when they are conducting official business....
In 1962, the La Crosse City Council was offered the chance to convert an old station wagon into an ambulance, and turned it down. Police chief...
In May of 1968, the Catholic Diocese of La Crosse named Monsignor John Paul its temporary administrator, while Bishop Frederick Freking was recovering from an illness. ...
Many great men and women have served this nation proudly by putting on a military uniform. But apparently only some of them deserve our respect. While...
In May of 2012, the La Crosse park board was told by tree specialists that about five thousand ash trees might have to be removed from...
Could they be more cruel? That is the best description I can think of for a debate in Washington about curtailing the federal food stamp program....