In the summer of 1969, it was against the law in La Crosse County to drink anything but milk during June Dairy Month. Okay, we think that was...
It is a victory for Wisconsin voters. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that the Wisconsin Elections Commission should not remove from the voter rolls the...
Many people are turned off by politics. It’s hard to blame them. Some think politicians are all crooked liars. Others think it doesn’t matter who they...
The 22nd of April in 1970 was a big day for ecological awareness in the U.S. Walter Cronkite did a special report on CBS that night,...
The results of Tuesday’s election were rather underwhelming. Not who won or lost, but how many people chose not to participate in the democratic process. Turnout...
Just who is in charge? For the United State Congress, the answer appears to be no one. Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is the subject of a...
On April 8th of 1974, viewers around the U.S. watched an early-season baseball game between the L.A. Dodgers and Hank Aaron’s Atlanta Braves. Aaron had tied...
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,...
Finally, today is election day. It has been a long few months for the two candidates for Mayor of La Crosse. Not long by federal election...
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...