Well, that was ugly. We got to see the most powerful people in our country explode into a shouting match. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer met...
Around Christmastime of 1984, La Crosse Mayor Pat Zielke launched another re-election campaign, finishing up 10 years in the 6th floor office at City Hall. Zielke...
When playing a game, it is important to follow the rules. But in the game of politics, you can simply change the rules to make things...
The holiday season of 1955 had featured a La Crosse presentation of “The Messiah,” directed by David Mewaldt from the music department at La Crosse State. ...
Not long ago, we heard of the ideal of local control. But those days are long gone. More and more, Madison has passed laws that restrict...
At Christmas-time of 1976, the head of La Crosse’s redevelopment authority, Charles Parrott, resigned to take a similar job in Colorado. Parrott had been hired by...
The funeral of former President George H.W. Bush reminds us of the importance of legacy. Leaders and former leaders gathered this week to say goodbye to...
The habit of alternate side parking was adopted by La Crosse in 1959…during the summer. And it lasted year-round. In the first month, city police gave...
It is, by any measure, an assault on our democracy. Legislative leaders in Madison have followed through on their threats to ignore the results of the...
In early 1982, the La Crosse School District was considering more school closings because of declining enrollment. Two elementary schools on the north side, Roosevelt and...
It is bad enough that legislative leaders in Madison want to take power away from their successors. They have hatched a plan to limit the powers...
In December of 2003, the Minnesota DOT had a public meeting in the La Crescent area to discuss long-range transportation plans. One project high on the...
The two U.S. presidents named Bush both came to La Crosse while they were in the White House. The older Bush, number 41, spent Halloween night...
I am quite weary of hearing the nasal tone of Scott Robert Shaw with his poorly conceived, single-minded, repetitious monologues, droning on with his prejudiced overview...
Leaders of the Wisconsin Legislature are starting to look a little desperate. Stung by losses in the recent election which saw democrats capture the governor’s office,...
An audience of 1700 people gathered at Mitchell Hall on the La Crosse State campus in 1970 to hear a famous speaker named Spock…and we’re not...
Around Christmas of 1962, the La Crosse Tribune reported “Santicipation” among local children who were lined up to see Santa Claus inside his trailer parked downtown. ...
Each election season we are bombarded by negative ads. They are more frequent, and more nasty. All designed to spread mis-truths and outright lies, to convince...
The issue of gerrymandering has been in the news a lot in Wisconsin. The way that legislative boundaries were drawn after the last census was done...
Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, a former candidate for vice president, got plenty of support in 1996, as he campaigned for the Republican nomination against President...