The Wisconsin legislature is not scheduled to meet again this year. But in the wake of the election, republicans in control of the legislature may try...
Christmas of 1965 marked the first holiday season that K-Mart was open in La Crosse, at Losey Boulevard and State Road. The big box store had...
In 1956, a parking ramp, or a deck, was unheard of in La Crosse. But a Citizens’ Committee for a Greater La Crosse was asking for...
In Wisconsin, the public records law is pretty clear. Basically, government records are considered to be open and available to the public except in very rare...
It may be time for Wisconsin’s much maligned job creation agency to get a pink slip. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation has been a colossal waste...
In the fall of 1978, La Crosse’s airport was considered for a route by one of the country’s larger airlines, TWA. But airport manager Curtis Tripp...
In May of 1968, the Catholic Diocese of La Crosse named Monsignor John Paul its temporary administrator, while Bishop Frederick Freking was recovering from an illness....
La Crosse Center expansion plans, take two. Months after the city said no to controversial design plans for a multi-million dollar makeover of La Crosse’s convention...
Happy Thanksgiving. Today is a day for giving thanks, something that I don’t do often enough. I am thankful for my family and friends. I am...
On April 8th and 9th of 1973, La Crosse saw one of its biggest snowstorms on record to that time. The 16-inch total easily beat the...
They’re still not done playing politics in Madison. State lawmakers are considering adopting new rules to restrict the powers of Governor-elect Tony Evers, before he even...
In November of 1955, Joe Givens resigned as the boss of La Crosse’s Mary E. Sawyer Auditorium, claiming that he could not perform his duties as...
Did marijuana help Tony Evers defeat Scott Walker? According to a new study, the answer is yes. But it seems such a surmise may be misleading....
In 2005, a La Crosse area man was asking the Wisconsin DNR for permission to shoot stray cats, if they could be defined as an “unprotected...
To most of us it seems obvious. The state’s public records laws should also extend to those who wrote the laws. But that is not the...
The La Crosse area is seeing record low unemployment right now…but a newspaper story in November of ’74 called the jobless rate in La Crosse County...
Apparently Wisconsin’s deal with Foxconn was not a cautionary tale for the states of New York and Virginia. Those two states have won the Amazon lottery,...
The assassination of President John Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963 was the headline story on the final edition of the La Crosse Tribune that Friday. The...
One might think that a celebration of free speech would be a bit controversial. Who would have thought inviting a former porn star to a university...
In November of 1968, Gein was convicted of murdering a central Wisconsin woman 11 years earlier…and then, the judge found him innocent by reason of insanity...