Recall elections have been held frequently in the La Crosse area over the past 50 years, but they haven’t been always been legal in Wisconsin. A recall...
As elections go, this is hardly a big one. But voters across Wisconsin are going to the polls today in a primary election that will determine...
The presidential election is now less than 90 days away, and once again election integrity remains a concern. Like in 2016 there are concerns about Russian...
During the last presidential campaign, in August of 2016, Indiana Governor Mike Pence campaigned at UW-La Crosse as the new Republican vice presidential nominee. Pence led...
Americans would crowd around TV sets on the night of August 8th in 1974, as the two-year Watergate scandal was about to come to an end. ...
We are fortunate in the La Crosse area to have so many wonderful choices in restaurants. But things are tough for those in the restaurant business...
Did we really get our money’s worth from this study? The city of La Crosse commissioned a study of parking by the company Rich and Associates....
In 1990, a special ceremony took place in Vernon County, where the State of Wisconsin formally apologized to native American tribes for the Bad Axe Massacre...
As the song says, time’s a wastin’. Members of Congress however continue to waste time trying to forge a package of legislation to deal with the...
It appears the Wisconsin Legislature may finally be ready to take action to deal with the ongoing pandemic. Since the outbreak began, our legislators in Madison...
For about as long as I can remember the city of La Crosse has tended to do things the same way, often because that is the...
In the summer of 1964, an Ohio developer predicted that a new K-Mart would be open on Losey Boulevard by the following spring. Some city aldermen...
There is plenty going on in the world today. A raging pandemic, a ravaged economy, racial injustice, police reform and more. But you wouldn’t know it...
July 31st, 1980 was opening day for La Crosse’s largest indoor shopping mall, Valley View Mall. Bigger than the other local shopping centers, the Village, Bridgeview,...
It seems that just about everything has changed because of the pandemic. But one thing that remains the same is big donors giving big money to...
If you are out in public in Winona, you need to wear a mask. Same with Madison and Milwaukee. All of Minnesota now has a mask...
In July of 1981, Britain’s Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at a lavish wedding seen on TV around the world. That same day, the Hotel...
In the summer of 1992, Governor Bill Clinton launched his fall campaign for president after the Democratic convention by taking a bus tour through the Midwest with his...
Bars and restaurants have been among the businesses hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Many were shutdown for a time, while some are just now reopening....
When you and I were young, we may have had to visit the school nurse because of a stomach ache, or an injury on the playground....