We’ve said it before, but we’ll say it again. Those who are working to approve that huge deal to bring Foxconn to Wisconsin need to read...
By the fall of 1976, La Crosse had spent years trying to decide what to build in the old warehouse district between 2nd Street and the...
Our founding fathers were pretty smart when the wrote the U.S. Constitution. But they could never envision that people would communicate in 140 characters or less....
The old 1965 courthouse and jail in La Crosse is now being converted to housing. That building replaced an old jail at 10th and Zeisler Streets…and...
Homelessness remains a problem in La Crosse. But much is being done in our community to put an end to the problem. Already, the La Crosse...
In late 1966, Dairyland Power announced plans for another generator at the site of its nuclear plant in Genoa. The $18 million plant would use steam...
More concern over Foxconn. Members of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation are still working to finalize the deal that calls for the manufacturer of flat screens...
The presidential campaign was winding down on Halloween of 1976, with election day on November 2nd. For the first time ever, an incumbent U.S. President (Gerald...
It happened the night before Halloween, 1938. “The Mercury Theatre on the Air” on CBS Radio broadcast a new version of “The War of the Worlds,”...
President Trump is right when he calls the opioid epidemic the worst drug crisis in American history. It is important that the highest level of federal...
Fifty-three years ago, the Portland Cement Association of Milwaukee was running newspaper ads in La Crosse touting the long life of a street made of concrete. ...
In 1958, La Crosse Mayor Milo Knutson suggested having city council meetings in the morning or afternoon, when other city offices would be open and the...
Just before Halloween, in 2015, the Wisconsin DNR announced that it had built new condos for brown bats that had been living in the old I-90...
In October of 1957, La Crosse State president Rexford Mitchell announced that construction of a new union building would start in the winter or spring. The...
Working together can be difficult when having conflicting goals. But it can also be ultimately beneficial and rewarding for those who put aside their differences to...
In October of 2000, a special committee in La Crosse held a hearing on the future of the “Big Indian” statue in Riverside Park, nicknamed “Hiawatha.” ...
This seems fair. Two members of Congress, Wisconsin democrat Tammy Baldwin and Arizona republican John McCain are joining together to introduce what they call the F.A.I.R....
In October of 1977, Judge James Rice of Monroe County launched a bid for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Rice said the main issue of his campaign...
It is the biggest government giveaway in the state’s history, and the largest government subsidy to a foreign company by any state ever. But we still...
In the month before the 1960 presidential election, both major candidates campaigned in La Crosse. Vice President Richard Nixon spoke at the Sawyer Auditorium one day...