On election night of 1980, American voters changed course by replacing Democratic President Jimmy Carter with Republican Ronald Reagan. The election happened on the first anniversary...
Much has changed since Foxconn first announced plans for a huge production facility in southeast Wisconsin. What was going to employ 13,000 only employs hundreds. What...
The national media have often claimed that Hillary Clinton never visited Wisconsin during the 2016 presidential race. It’s true, she didn’t get to the state in the...
In 1968, the Catholic Diocese of La Crosse named Monsignor John Paul its temporary administrator, while Bishop Frederick Freking was recovering from an illness. Paul was...
On the night before Halloween in 1938, many Americans heard that spaceships from Mars had landed in New Jersey…but they only heard it, if they were...
When did we become so selfish? The United States of America, not that long ago, was a country of shared ideals. We united, when necessary, for...
On Halloween night in 1975, a Friday night, most UW-L students probably wouldn’t be caught dead…or alive…attending a college debate between teams from La Crosse and...
The one consistency about rules governing the wearing of masks is the inconsistency. Wisconsin has a rule that requires people wear masks when inside most public...
What can government do? The answer is nothing. At least in the eyes of one Wisconsin state representative. State Rep. Joe Sanfelippo gave an interesting interview...
It is getting hard to keep track of the rules. The on-again, off-again ruling that Wisconsin bars and restaurants limit occupancy to no more than 25%...
In the fall of 1985, the Catbirds basketball team of the CBA was about to play its first season in La Crosse, after spending two years...
One last shot? It appears there may be one final chance for Congress to help struggling Americans. But it is a tight window. House Speaker Nancy...
In October of 1977, Judge James Rice of Monroe County launched a bid for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Rice said the main issue of his campaign...
As I see it … I’m Bill Feehan with the Republican Party of Wisconsin. Democrats continue to criticize Republicans in the Legislature for not enacting a...
It is a trying time for bars and restaurants. Many are barely hanging on as they have seen business drop during the pandemic. Calling it a...
In October of 1987, the La Crosse city council passed an ordinance to ban skates and skateboards from city streets, parking ramps, and sidewalks in business...
Four years ago at this time, the polls suggested Hillary Clinton would win the presidency. According to the polling numbers, Clinton would carry Wisconsin on her...
In October 1948, the president was traveling around the country, speaking to voters just before the election. Democrat Harry Truman had been president for three years,...
We’ve seen this movie before, and we know how it ends. When Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature sued to overturn Governor Tony Evers’ executive order...
The Big Indian statue was removed from La Crosse’s Riverside Park during the summer of 2020, but there was an effort to take it down in...