Voting is a very private matter. Our voting records are kept secret. We never have to tell anyone who we voted for. We don’t even have...
In 1964, plans to build a K-Mart at Losey Boulevard and State Road were shut down by the La Crosse city council. They halted the project...
The cost of not fixing Wisconsin’s roads just went up a lot. Wisconsin lawmakers remain unable to reach a deal on a new state transportation budget,...
In 1990, a special ceremony took place in Vernon County, at which the state of Wisconsin formally apologized to native American tribes for the Bad Axe...
Things sure have changed in the beer industry. For the better, most would argue. Rather than having just two choices for a cold malted beverage, we...
Forty years ago, in 1977, you could shop for groceries at the Food City Warehouse on George Street, Rich’s Fairway Market on South Avenue, and the...
Fifty years ago, in 1967, the president of La Crosse State, Sam Gates, announced plans for punishing students who demonstrated, or protested speakers on campus. Gates...
For the third year of La Crosse’s Oktoberfest in 1963, bandleader Guy Lombardo brought his Royal Canadians to the Sawyer Auditorium where 7000 people listened to...
In 1956, the state of Wisconsin would ask voters whether sheriffs out to serve more than two consecutive terms, of two years each. The idea was...
In June of 1990, the TV show ‘WWF Superstars of Wrestling’ featured bouts from the La Crosse Center three weeks in a row. On one episode,...
We have complained about it for years, and now the state of Wisconsin may be ready to do something about it. We’re talking about the Wisconsin...
In 1972, the 4th of July fell on a Tuesday, and the La Crosse Tribune suggested that Independence Day become a Monday holiday, for the sake...
The lower limit on Losey leads to lament. Many drivers are upset that the city has chosen to lower the speed limit on Losey Boulevard. The...
The CB radio fad may have been done by 1984, but special radios were still popular…especially police scanners, for people to listen to squad-car radios. Wettstein’s...
We have complained about it for years, but now Wisconsin legislators may finally be willing to do something about it. Cracking down on cell phone use...
In July of 1964, Bangor attorney John Bosshard was driving his family to San Francisco, where he was going to serve as a delegate to the...
The U-S Supreme Court decided to settle a dispute over the drawing of political districts in Wisconsin…in June of 1962. The La Crosse Tribune ran an...
It is good that Wisconsin lawmakers are concerned about free speech. But it makes no sense to protect free speech by limiting free speech. But that...
In the spring of 2005, Evan Zimmerman earned the chance at a retrial on a murder charge for which he had gone to prison. The Wisconsin...
My Dad taught me a long time ago, that if something is worth doing, it is worth taking the time to do it right. That should...