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....
President Trump has said it would be easy to bring the ongoing federal government shutdown to an end. And he is right. He simply would need...
That’s the thing about a revolving door. You can never slam it shut. But that is what one Wisconsin U.S. Senator wants to do. Tammy Baldwin...
In 1967, folks in La Crosse were marking 125 years since Nathan Myrick’s decision to build a house here. A newspaper article reported that Myrick became...
At the start of 1964, the Army Recruiting station in La Crosse reported that 176 persons had enlisted at the office during the previous year. According to a...
It is clear that our political parties rarely see eye to eye. On just about anything these days. And those disagreements have become more than ideological...
In January of 1967, a $1 million grant was approved for Viterbo’s Fine Arts Center. The state higher educational aids commission said “yes” to the money. ...
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers promised on the campaign trail to address Wisconsin’s crumbling roads and bridges. And he is planning to unveil his plan for doing...
When it comes to good government, the politicians like to take the credit. They are the ones who determine how our money should be spent and...
People in Boston still talk about January 15th of 1919, when a 50-foot-high storage tank filled with molasses erupted, sending two million gallons of the gooey...
In 1959, Assemblyman Hugh Harper of Grant County proposed dropping the state voting age to 18, arguing that by the time high school graduates get to...
In his eight years as Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker did not make one visit to the state’s juvenile prison, the Lincoln Hills School for boys....
One year before the 1972 presidential election, South Dakota Senator George McGovern visited La Crosse during Oktoberfest. At the time, McGovern was one of several Democrats...