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The city of La Crosse has tried a variety of ways to reduce the homeless population. However, none of those solutions have worked. So it seems the city is trying a different approach. Rather than coddling the unsheltered with free hotel rooms, or letting them live in a city park while providing them with water […]

These are tough times for colleges. Many are seeing declining enrollment, while some campuses are closing altogether. In Wisconsin, the University System President Jay Rothman is sounding warning alarms about declining enrollment and increased debts at many campuses in the system. Meanwhile, the UW System says its tuition rates will rise starting with the new […]

It isn’t that Wisconsin lawmakers aren’t getting any work done. It is just that it is an exercise in futility. Despite their short legislative session our representatives in Madison have kept busy writing a record number of bills. I suppose that is evidence they are getting something done in Madison, but a large majority of […]

In April of 1973, the immediate La Crosse area received 16 inches of snow in just 36 hours. It was the third biggest snowstorm on record in the city, behind snowfalls in 1959, and 1971. In Prairie du Chien, three cars collided on snow-covered Highway 18, near the Old Rock School. Six people from the […]

“Everybody gets to go to the moon” was part of the lyric of a popular song in 1969, but only three men actually got to take the trip. The first manned landing on the lunar surface happened on July 20th, 1969, a Sunday. Neil Armstrong took those first steps on the lunar surface during the […]

Nov. 22 in 1963 marked the last time that Americans woke up with a president who would not be alive by the end of the day.  President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie had gone to Texas on a political trip when the president and Texas Gov. John Connally were shot while riding in […]