Happy Oktoberfest! The annual celebration of our German heritage has now begun in La Crosse, and for many people that means fun. Lots of fun. A...
Gardner Withrow of La Crosse was a former railroad man when he first went to Congress in 1931. Withrow served four terms in the House as...
Tailgating is a Wisconsin tradition. But under some changes being considered by lawmakers in Madison, your ability to do so, at least if alcohol is being...
When elections approach, politicians tend to do things they wouldn’t normally do. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has been cutting money for public education during his 8...
In early 1966, author John Howard Griffin spoke in La Crosse about his experiences posing as a black man in the South, as described in his...
Sometimes, politicians make things more difficult than they need to be. For example, Governor Scott Walker has ordered his Attorney General to sue the federal government...
The trade war continues to escalate. And it is about to get much more real. Already we have seen the impacts of President Trump’s decision to...
Former university president Rexford Mitchell died on the 4th of July in 1973. He was 77. Mitchell holds the longevity record among the people who have...
In 2013, the La Crosse park department was debating whether to keep the name Hood Park on public property along 5th Avenue South. There was a...
During summer vacation in 1974, vandals tore apart the IMC, the library area, at Spence Elementary in La Crosse. The damage to the 10-thousand square foot...
We already know what kind of shape Wisconsin’s roads are in. Now we are finding out just how much it is costing us to drive on...
What was making the news on 8-8-68? Take a trip to yesterday in La Crosse. On August 8th of 1968, Richard Nixon accepted the Republican presidential...
It is a victory for transparency, and for our democracy. The Supreme Court this week declined to get involved in a long-running case involving those who...
There are plenty of issues on which to campaign in the Wisconsin Governor’s race. Whether the Foxconn deal is good for Wisconsin taxpayers, what to do...
Two clues were all that a brother and sister needed to find the Oktoberfest medallion in 1968…yesterday in La Crosse. Medallion hunters in 1968 were told...
The fight is currently in the courts. But a better battle would likely be at the polling booths. The United States Supreme Court was the most...
In 1974, La Crosse County clerk Russ Fiedler reported that he had earned more than 53-hundred dollars in the previous year in fees from licenses...
The headline is frightening. “Wisconsin corrections officials don’t have current info for nearly 3000 sex offenders.” That is a scary thought, but the headline may be...
We’re told the Wisconsin state budget is in good shape. The books are balanced, they tell us. We even ran a surplus, so the state provided...
In October of 2008, Arizona Senator John McCain and his wife Cindy landed at the La Crosse airport, for a campaign rally roughly a month before...