It is easy to identify the important issues facing this country. Figuring out how to fix them is another matter. Immigration ha increasingly become an issue...
Many U.S. Presidents, or presidents to be, have paid visits to God’s Country in the last 50 to 60 years. Donald Trump has not been to...
Sometimes things come up at the last minute. Other times things are sprung at the last minute, and that seems to increasingly be the case for...
On the night before Halloween 80 years ago, in 1938, many Americans heard that spaceships from Mars had landed in New Jersey…but they only heard it,...
It is not something you hear talked about much on the campaign trail. But it is one of the biggest issues facing this country. The national...
Forty five years ago, in the fall of 1973, word got out that NASA was testing women to see if they could withstand the rigors of...
Gov. Warren Knowles was running for a third two-year term in the fall of 1968. Knowles was promoting traffic safety in his campaign, by showing a...
Police continue to investigate a series of suspicious packages containing pipe bombs, ten so far, sent to prominent democrats including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Other...
In November of 1989, East Germany surprised the world by announcing that its citizens would be allowed to travel freely anywhere…meaning there was no more need...
Wisconsin is in a unique position. But not an enviable one. Because the state decided not to accept federal money available through the Affordable Care Act,...
Only one major league baseball club from Wisconsin has ever been a World Series champion, and that was the 1957 Milwaukee Braves. They beat the Yankees...
Governor Walker proudly promised when he first campaigned for office 8 years ago that he would, if elected, create 250,000 new jobs in the state...
During the 1966 Oktoberfest, go-go nights were set up at the Avalon Ballroom on Copeland, to attract a younger crowd. But on the first of the...
In just two short weeks from today, Wisconsin voters will be heading to the polls. Many of them anyway. While many voters long ago made up...
In October of 1955, La Crosse State College was about to get $90,000 worth of state funding, to help acquire the county fairgrounds along Campbell Road...
Generally speaking, journalism is not among the most dangerous of jobs. We write and talk for a living. Still, 44 journalists have been killed doing their...
In the fall of 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made history by signing the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler. That gave Germany parts of Czechoslovakia,...
Sheriff Steve Helgeson is right. He runs the largest psychiatric facility in the county. That facility is the La Crosse County jail, where an increasing number...
The roof of La Crosse City Hall was crowded one morning in 1992, as spectators watched naturalist Pat Skewes place a box containing four peregrine falcons...
As the election nears, Scott Walker has suddenly become the road governor. He has already labeled himself the education governor, but after ignoring our crumbling roads,...