A 1969 story in the Tribune was about the St. Paul Winter Carnival that year. Two hundred persons from La Crosse took a train to the...
There is no science involved in determining when someone arrested for a crime should be allowed to post bond with a promise to return to court...
It is good that the President has the ability to declare a national emergency. Such a move was likely necessary after the United States was attacked...
The Packers may have been the reigning Super Bowl champs in the summer of 1997, but there was excitement in La Crosse about the New Orleans...
If you and I fail to pay our taxes, the taxman comes looking for us. But if you are a big corporation, our government is happy...
Throughout the year in 1965, local stores placed ads in the La Crosse State campus newspaper, selling diamond rings and other types of rings…apparently, in case...
In 2001, it was a space oddity…the La Crosse Center had space for a professional basketball team, but no team. Early that year, the La Crosse...
When a large group of people gets together, there is always some diversity of opinion. Such is the case with a college campus like UW-La Crosse....
As sports fans, we have all lamented that blown call. Just ask the New Orleans Saints, who were kept out of the Super Bowl by a...
The La Crosse Tribune headline of February 3rd, 1959 said “3 Top Rock ‘N’ Roll Singers Killed in Iowa Plane Crash.” Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper,...
In 1962, the Tribune ran a photo of a sad young tennis player, named Tim Gullikson. Tim had just lost the finals of the La Crosse...
We would prefer that everyone pay their fair share of taxes. But we also realize that isn’t always possible. For example, Wisconsin is among a small...
What is the cost of going too far? In Wisconsin, the answer apparently is $500 per hour. That is how much the state’s republican leadership is...
In early 1982, La Crosse city leaders agreed to try buying the west side of the 100 block of North 3rd Street. That’s where First Bank...
Here we go again. The clock is once again ticking on efforts to pass a federal spending bill and avoid a government shutdown. When President Trump...
Seventy-three million viewers tuned in to “The Ed Sullivan Show” on February 9th in 1964, to see a new British band…the Beatles, making their American television debut. ...
In 1975, La Crosse area residents raised several hundred dollars to help people in Corn Island, our sister city in Nicaragua. A group of visitors from...
Wisconsin’s residential taxpayers are paying more than their fair share, while big corporations are paying less. It is called the dark store loophole, and it is...
In 19995, a plan by the Lac du Flambeau tribe to turn the Holiday Inn on the pike into a $50 million casino was shot down...
Wisconsin lawmakers make a pretty good salary. About $51,000 a year. Not bad for only having to work a few days of the year given the...