In April of 2001, the national media kept track of severe flooding on the Mississippi. For a couple of days, the focus was on La Crosse,...
Five-day-a-week soap operas were introduced on radio in the 1930’s, and then moved to television. An episode only lasted 15 minutes, until April of 1956. That’s when a pair of...
We need to dig deeper into the topic we discussed yesterday; the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Governor’s statewide mask mandate. We mentioned the...
It is no April Fool’s joke. Wisconsin’s mask mandate is no more. The state Supreme Court ruled that Governor Tony Evers lacked the authority to extend...
It is a Covid success story. After initial delays, Wisconsin has become one of the leading states to get the vaccinations in people’s arms. Wisconsin got...
It’s happened five times in American history…a president has been shot while in office. Abraham Lincoln was the first, in 1865. Then Garfield, and McKinley, and...
It seems, more and more, that it really wasn’t about ensuring change. On the heels of the deadly protests in Kenosha last summer, Wisconsin lawmakers were...
We are just over one week until our next election. But if you haven’t made plans to vote somehow other than in-person, time is quickly running...
It is a word we had never heard before, and suddenly we seem to hear it more and more. That word is PFAS, an acronym for...
The lack of action by the Wisconsin Legislature has been well documented. They essentially took a year off. A year when a pandemic raged, our cities...
They say there is no such thing as a free lunch, but why not? Study after study has shown that students learn best when they are...
One year before the ’72 presidential election, South Dakota Senator George McGovern visited La Crosse during the fall fest. At the time, McGovern was one of...
In early 2006, the city of La Crosse was ordering the demolition of a nearly century-old building next to the new Cameron Avenue bridge. The owners...
The twists and turns continue for the future of Foxconn. The company that once vowed to bring Wisconsin the eighth wonder of the world is still...
In 1981, the La Crosse Chamber of Commerce took a $20,000 study that had been gathering dust and looked at it again, in search of ways...
The debate continues at both the federal and state level over whether the minimum wage should be raised to $15 per hour. Most who are making...
We are used to hearing the fringe views from Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson. Now it seems his views are moving from fringe to extremist. The U.S....
There is often much debate about what and how our students learn in the classrooms. Just what of our history should they be required to learn?...
After living amid a pandemic for the past year, many are eager to return to normal. But is that even possible? The pandemic has changed many...
The United States Constitution is a precious document. It has served as the guiding principles for our democracy for hundreds of years. But some think the...