In July of 1967, leaders of La Crosse’s Oktoberfest carried on the tradition of representing the city at the Minneapolis Aquatennial. The local group would board...
Governor Walker has been busy raising money. He is a politician after all. Walker has not yet officially announced his intentions to seek a third term...
In the summer of 1988, Australian Alan Bond had owned La Crosse’s Heileman Brewery for just about a year…completing a hostile takeover the previous fall. Bond...
Wisconsin remains the only state in the nation where drunk driving is not a crime. And despite the repeated efforts of some lawmakers, that is not...
In the summer of 1985, Madison’s Freedom from Religion Foundation launched its first effort to have a 10 Commandments marker removed from La Crosse’s Cameron Park. ...
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...