We knew this day would come, and it has. Wisconsin state lawmakers rewrote the state’s campaign finance laws in 2015, essentially removing limits on campaign donations...
In 1978, the La Crosse School District decided to close four elementary schools, and put together a list of six schools to choose from. The list...
Wisconsin lawmakers are doing some good. Even for others than themselves. Members of the Wisconsin Assembly have approved legislation to waive tuition and fees for foster...
In 1990, the Crossing Meadows Plaza near Exit 4 of I-90 was quickly being developed. A year earlier, part of that area was considered as a...
The answer was swift and short. No. That is the response from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to the city of La Crosse. Mayor Tim Kabat...
In 1981, the La Crosse Chamber of Commerce took a $20,000 study that had been gathering dust and looked at it again, in search of ways...
Their hands must be sore, they have been so busy patting themselves on the back in Washington. Congress is giddy after finally passing a government spending...
In February of ’72, former Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy talked with U-W-L students at Cartwright Center. The 1968 presidential candidate warned that the presidency could become...
Mayor Tim Kabat is right. La Crosse Street needs to be fixed now. Kabat is proposing fixing the pothole filled road and having local taxpayers pay...
On this night in 1964, the Fab Four made its first live appearance on U.S. television, on “The Ed Sullivan Show”…sandwiched on Sunday night TV between...
What is the solution for fixing Wisconsin’s crumbling roads? Lawmakers in Madison have struggled with that for years, and so far the only answer is to...
Sounds like we have opened a Pandora’s box. As we discussed yesterday, Foxconn is getting a sweetheart deal from Wisconsin taxpayers, collecting $200,000 in taxpayer subsidies...
They don’t make Ramblers any more, but it was a popular car model in 1956, and got between 17 and 24 miles a gallon. In those...
We knew the Foxconn deal was expensive. Now we’re finding out just how expensive. Wisconsin lawmakers pledged to give the Taiwanese company nearly $3 billion in...
In 1943, the U.S. was at war in Europe and the Pacific, and Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt was already a record-holder on his third term in...
Will you be the first to roll up your sleeves Governor Walker? Scott Walker is calling for the drug testing of those who live in public...
In 1990, the Wisconsin DNR was ordering a cleanup at the Shiftar Brothers salvage yard near Gillette Street. The city of La Crosse was in the...
There has got to be a better way. And there is. But Wisconsin lawmakers continue to ignore more fair methods for creating legislative boundaries that determine...
Hey Madison, could you slow down a bit? That is the message from State Rep. Peter Barca, who is critical of the Wisconsin Legislature’s rushed agenda....
In 1993, about 40 people gathered at Aquinas High School one weekend to hear speakers warn about porn. One person on the program suggested that there...