When the Twist became a national dance craze in the early 60’s, the Arthur Murray Dance Studios were ready to teach you. La Crosse had a...
You see it all the time. The car in front of you, not taking off when the light turns green. The car that weaves in its...
The strip mall at Jackson Plaza had its grand opening on Jackson Street in 1957, anchored by Major Rexall Drug and a Piggly Wiggly store. It...
Perhaps we have been going about this the wrong way. Like a number of other states, Wisconsin has been working to make it harder for people...
Fifty years ago, a nearly constant rain fell on the 1967 Oktoberfest Maple Leaf parade…leading to flocks of umbrellas along the route. The parade began at...
In the fall of 1964, the Frankenstein monster became family man Herman Munster…and Count Dracula became “Grandpa.” “The Munsters” hit CBS the same September that ABC...
It makes you wonder why we even have a Legislature. The veto pen given to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker allows him to totally circumvent the intention...
It sure took awhile, but it now appears that almost 20 years after voters said no to a new north-south corridor in La Crosse, the state...
In the fall of 1971, the state university…soon to be known as UW-La Crosse…made an offer to lease three city parking lots for $800 a year,...
In September of 1959, state GOP chairman Claude Jasper spoke to about 200 La Crosse County workers, and declared that the Wisconsin Democratic Party no longer...
In 1938, the attorney general of Wisconsin warned that the “marijuana evil” was not yet a major problem in the state. But A.G. Orland Loomis wanted...
I think that this is probably covered in the most basic of political courses. It is never good to tell people how to behave, only to...
They call the deal “transformational.” Let’s hope that turns out to be true, in a good way. The state of Wisconsin has gone all in on...
Several popular songs call attention to the 9th month of the year. “September” by Earth, Wind, and Fire is one of the more recent, coming out...
The city of La Crosse never seems to miss a way to squeeze a few more bucks out of people. The latest example has to do...
The 1973 Oktoberfest medallion hunt ended abruptly when George Mekvold found the prize in the water at a fountain outside the south entrance to La Crosse...
Of course it was too good to be true. The new Wisconsin state budget is crammed with items that have nothing to do with state spending....
Drive-through banking was a big deal…50 years ago, Yesterday in La Crosse. In September of 1967, an ad in the Tribune asked “What serves you with real...
They must be exhausted. Members of the Wisconsin Legislature finally wrapped up their work to complete a new state budget. Two and a half months after...
During the Wisconsin State Fair of 1966, a plaque was unveiled to commemorate Abraham Lincoln’s 1859 address to the Wisconsin Agricultural Society. That was a year...