In 1972, some football fans in La Crosse were trying to raise $30,000 to bring a semi-professional team to town. The Central States Football League was...
In May of 2012, the La Crosse park board was told by tree specialists that about five thousand ash trees might have to be removed from city...
In business, it is best to under-promise and over-deliver. Someone should remind Foxconn of that, as the company instead seems to be over-promising and under-delivering. The...
It is about as bad as it gets. Possible record-setting cold has settled into the La Crosse area, and much of the Midwest. It is enough...
This is expected to be the coldest week in the Coulee Region since late January and early February in 1996. After two big snowstorms a week apart, a...
It was supposed to be an effort to shore up confidence in America’s political system by keeping big money out of politics. But thanks to a...
The Apollo program to send astronauts to the moon endured a deadly setback in January of 1967, when the crew of Apollo 1 died in a...
So, the government shutdown has come to an end. At least for now. But how long before our petulant politicians use the threat of another government...
In early 1986, Burger King was running an ad campaign, asking customers to watch for a fellow named ‘Herb’ at their restaurants. According to the commercials,...
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is one of the most powerful men in Madison. It looks like some of that power needs to be reigned in....
In 1970, Congress was talking about ways to preserve the popular Delta Queen paddlewheeler, which made regular trips on the Upper Mississippi. The boat was nearly...
In 1962, there was no such holiday as “President’s Day” in the U.S. Officially, that February holiday still is called “Washington’s Birthday,” but before 1971, the...
In Washington, things tend to be either-or. Either you give me the money for a border wall, or I will keep the government shutdown. Either build...
One of the common threads among those who commit school shootings in the United States is, in addition to an access to guns, is some sort...
In January of 1998, the Holiday Inn Express was under construction at the corner of 2nd and Pearl, across the street from the La Crosse Center....
On April 4th of 1968, Martin Luther King Junior was shot and killed while standing on a balcony at a motel in Memphis. The 39-year-old civil...
The final chapter may be long from written. But so far, the story of Foxconn in Wisconsin isn’t exactly the great story we were told it...
Snowzeit, the German term for “snow time,” was chosen as the theme for the Winter Carnival at La Crosse State College in ’62. They had chairmen...
That didn’t take long. For good reason. A federal judge has struck down an outrageous attempt to make it more difficult to vote in Wisconsin. The...
In the summer of 2008, some La Crosse area residents announced plans to take World War II veterans on a quick one-day round trip to Washington....