Nearly everyone agrees that police who misbehave need to be punished. But some want to go farther, by defunding police departments across the country. They argue...
There is no question Americans are hurting from the economic impact of the coronavirus. The unemployment rate is expected to reach or exceed 20%, a rate...
What will college look like come fall? No one, not even those in charge of making those decisions, know the answer yet. Most universities finished the...
The Allied invasion of France on June 6th, 1944, was a major turning point in World War II, but back home, workers were still needed to...
Let’s show them how it’s done La Crosse. Another rally is planned tonight in La Crosse over the death of George Floyd and racial injustice overall....
What is the proper way to respond to a pandemic? There are no shortage of opinions about that. Shut everything down, or go about business as...
On June 1st of 1967, the Beatles released their ground-breaking album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” Besides the title track, the “Sgt. Pepper” album also...
Protests are nothing new in the United States. But it seems clear we still aren’t very good at determining how to deal with them. After the...
School was ending and summer was beginning in the last week of May, 1947 around the Midwest, when an extremely late-season snowstorm developed in the Rockies...
Voting from home is about to get easier in Wisconsin. Maybe. The Wisconsin Elections Commission has approved a plan to send absentee ballot applications to Wisconsin’s...
Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce development was overwhelmed with calls and applications for unemployment when so many lost their jobs amid the...
It is an obvious sign of the effects of the pandemic. The homeless, crowding into shelters and city parks. With the pandemic savaging the economy and...
The year 1970 is remembered for anti-war protests, environmental awareness, and the breakup of the Beatles. For people watching TV that summer, there was a wide...
Living amid the pandemic has been like living under a dark cloud. It seems ominous and threatening. But apparently it is true that every dark cloud...
The La Crosse Queen paddlewheeler was being introduced in 1965. Roy Franz of the Big Indian Boat Lines said the new excursion boat could hold as...
Some time ago, wearing a mask in public likely meant you were getting ready to rob a train, or a stagecoach. Suddenly, wearing a mask has...
Clearly, we can’t count on our politicians to keep us safe during a pandemic. President Donald Trump made clear early on that the federal government would...
One thing every American should be able to agree on is that in our democracy all people are provided an equal opportunity to cast a ballot....
In 1966, the police chief of Munich in West Germany visited La Crosse. Chief Manfred Schreiber was on a six-week tour of the U.S. Oktoberfest in...
In May of 1977, J-C Penney agreed to open an anchor store at the Valley View Mall being planned along Highway 16, near I-90. At the...