Fifty years ago tonight, in 1967, a record-setting audience for a regular TV series watched the final episode of “The Fugitive,” with David Janssen as Dr....
In the summer of 1969, Mrs. Mauree Applegate Clack of La Crosse died. She had taught education at La Crosse State for 21 years. Later that...
It looks like a wall brawl is inevitable. President Trump continues to call for the construction of a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. At...
In the summer of 1960, Pastor Burdett W. Wakeman of the First Church of Christ at 8th and Cass was giving up his ministry there after...
Way to go downtown La Crosse! The city’s downtown is shining brighter than ever before. And what a turnaround it has been. Like many city’s, La...
Music legend Bob Dylan played at the La Crosse Center in October of 2001, just weeks after the 9-11 attacks. A review in the Tribune noted...
Serving as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is no doubt a difficult job. It can be hard to get lawmakers of divergent political...
The UW-L football Eagles took the NCAA Div. III championship in the fall of 1992, seven years after becoming national champions in the NAIA. Coach Roger...
If Foxconn comes to Wisconsin, it could provide a huge boost to the Wisconsin economy. But the word “could” needs to be spelled with a capital...
The headline reads, “New bill would require Donald Trump to undergo mental health evaluation.” It isn’t like to pass and become law, but what if there...
The states of Wisconsin and Illinois may be neighbors, but not always friendly neighbors. Soon after taking office, Governor Walker ratcheted up the rhetoric when he...
In 1964, local radio stations broadcast lots of high school sports. WKTY in La Crosse was broadcasting the WIAA basketball playoffs at all four levels, from...
It is potentially the biggest deal in the state of Wisconsin’s history. Lawmakers are trying to formalize a $3 billion incentive package to lure Foxconn, and...
Raymond Burke returned home to La Crosse in the summer of 1975, just after being ordained as a priest in Rome by Pope Paul VI. Father...
There are a number of quirky rules in our political system. Like the system of selecting judges. Under an arcane rule known as the “blue slip”...
In August of 1977, Medary was proceeding with a bond sale that would allow the town to operate its own sewage treatment system, just as Dayton-Hudson...
President Trump is right when he says that the opioid epidemic is a national emergency. But declaring it such does nothing to make the problem go...
In August of 2012, the La Crosse School District decided to schedule a fall referendum on whether to build a new north-side elementary school to take...
In August of 1971, about 500 people attended the ground-breaking for a new Kickapoo River dam project near La Farge. Just one protester spoke out at...
Will it finally work this time? Fingers crossed. The city of La Crosse is about to flip the switch on a new pay-to-park system in its...