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Earlier this year, I commented on the air that Americans should feel lucky that we haven’t had more attacks on elected officials and other famous people recently. That comment came just after the shooting deaths of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband. Well, the news of the last week has been dominated […]

Today is the 24th anniversary of the horrific events of 9/11.   Many of you old enough to remember that day likely can recall learning about the event for the first time.   I remember coming into the courthouse and having one of the security people mention if I’d heard about someone flying a plane into a […]

A city council meeting is set for tonight, and on the agenda is the potential hiring of — not really a city administrator — but essentially one under a different name: operations director. That vote will likely be delayed at least a month to dissect the proposal further. The mayor added it to committee late […]

Elvis Presley was just 21 when he played his only concerts in La Crosse, two shows in one night at the old Mary E. Sawyer auditorium on May 14th, 1956. Twenty-one years later, in August of 1977, Presley died at his Graceland mansion in Memphis. Twenty-one years after the death of Elvis, the very first […]

Several popular songs call attention to the 9th month of the year. “September” by Earth, Wind, and Fire is one of the more recent, coming out in 1978. Others have become standards. The lyric “Try to remember the kind of September” dates back to 1960, from the musical “The Fantasticks.” The La Crosse Community Theatre […]

A week before the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump held a late afternoon campaign rally on a chilly October day at the La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway in West Salem. Trump was the incumbent president running for a second term. He rode around the track in his limousine before the Oct. 27 speech, where he called […]