It wasn’t a debate, but a discussion. That’s how people who met at the mayor’s office in La Crosse today described a closed-door meeting about the...
There’s another big Hiawatha statue outside of La Crosse that nobody’s talking about taking down. We talked to Michael Meyer, head of the Chamber of Commerce...
Some members of the La Crosse city council are expected to meet with Ho-Chunk Nation representatives today, to figure out what should happen to the Hiawatha...
The ‘Baby’ has been ‘put to bed,’ according to the La Crosse Arts Board. La Crosse Mayor Tim Kabat has accepted an offer to install giant egg...
One La Crosse city council member has had enough of the city’s Human Rights Commission. Gary Padesky loves the 25-foot Hiawatha statue in Riverside Park. The...
The La Crosse city council could get a recommendation on the future of the Hiawatha statue within the next couple of months. Recent public discussions have...
A key decision on La Crosse’s Hiawatha statue could be up to the city’s Human Rights Commission. That group co-sponsored a forum back in December, which...
“It’ll be gone,” maybe not soon but someday. That’s what one representative of the Ho-Chunk Nation said at a town meeting Thursday night about the big...
Chamber supported Indian statue project as tourism attraction around 1960
Now that the bandage has been pulled off, La Crosse Mayor Tim Kabat is looking for some healing on the Hiawatha statue. The issue has come...
