(2008/05/13)
to work together for students By the Tribune editorial board Western Technical College is working on a collaborative program with the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
(2008/05/11)
A Wisconsin Supreme Court decision might be helpful in the fight against binge drinking and alcohol abuse.
(2008/05/11)
The 2008 winter has been the coldest in 40 years — for the upper Midwest, the Plains States and most of Canada. La Crosse recorded 31 days of below-zero temperatures, while the folks in Madison shoveled away at a 140-year record snowfall throughout the season, as did some residents of New England and Canada.
(2008/05/11)
Ending workplace smoking in Wisconsin, including inside bars and restaurants, is an idea with strong, bipartisan public support and one that’s time is long overdue.
(2008/05/11)
I grew up in Viroqua, Wis., and I’ve often extolled its many virtues. If you are old enough to remember the sitcom, “Happy Days” with Ritchie and the Fonz et al, you will recall some of the cultural experiences reflected in that situation comedy that for me, reflect
(2008/05/10)
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor recently brought an urgent message to audiences in Minnesota and Wisconsin: Keep the judiciary independent.
(2008/05/08)
Wisconsin residents want everyone to have access to affordable insurance, even if the state has to run the program.
(2008/05/07)
Where could you meet a couple that liked to travel to places like Iran? Or a man who worked as a pilot on foreign ocean-going merchant ships?
(2008/05/06)
Is the University of Wisconsin System facing a potential decline? And does the Legislature know or care?
(2008/05/06)
The Holmen Cross has, like the La Crosse Ten Command-ments, generated a number of letters to the Tribune concerning religious freedom and the constitution.
(2008/05/05)
Let’s assume for a moment that the era of high gasoline prices is permanent and not temporary.
(2008/05/04)
Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton have both proposed that the government stop charging consumers the 18.4-cent federal gas tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
(2008/05/04)
The need to act is clear. Our great state has much to lose with a changing climate. Not only will global warming affect our environment and species habitat — worrying conservationists, hunters and fishermen alike — it could threaten our most important economic engines. Extreme heat and flooding like we saw last summer will affect agriculture and damage property, while declining water levels in Lake Michigan and Lake Superior may hurt shipping, trade, tourism and recreation.
(2008/05/04)
In 1972, the rock group Jethro Tull released a 43-minute song that read more like a college dissertation than a lyric. The “poem” written by fictional child prodigy Gerald Bostock titled “Thick as a Brick” contained a verse memorable to this fledgling college student: “the doer and the thinker, no allowance for the other.”
(2008/05/04)
Football fans or fans of other sports may disagree, but I think baseball is the quintessential American game.
(2008/05/03)
A pharmacist who refused to fill a birth-control prescription because of his religious beliefs deserves to be disciplined by Wisconsin pharmacy regulators.
(2008/05/01)
Republican Presidential candidate John McCain has come up with what he regards as a free-market health plan. It would be worse than the status quo, and would put people with chronic illnesses at risk.
(2008/04/30)
Two retired New York City Police detectives are stirring up the waters again on the issue of the Mississippi River drownings.
(2008/04/30)
Times are tough. Families are cutting back, working harder, taking extra jobs and finding ways to stretch the dollars. Families are not alone in their struggles.
(2008/04/29)
A majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has concluded that laws requiring photo identification cards to vote do not place an undue burden on voters.
(2008/04/28)
Franciscan Skemp Healthcare CEO Dr. Robert Nesse believes that his institution will not be able to sustain its current level of care unless U.S. health policy changes.
(2008/04/27)
Remember Hillary Clinton’s attempt at health insurance reform in 1993? The Clinton administration came up with a plan that would have allowed for universal access to health insurance for everyone — without having to get it at work.
(2008/04/27)
With the rapid approach of Mother’s Day, most of us support the greeting card and floral industries with sentimental gushing about how much we appreciate these strong, intelligent and smart women who gave us life and have groomed us into what we have become at whatever age in life we are.
(2008/04/27)
“Two hands working achieve more than a thousand hands folded in prayer.” — Robert G. Ingersoll
(2008/04/27)
May 1 is the National Day of Prayer. I am thankful to live in a country where this is observed each year. Having a National Day of Prayer is not only consistent with our nation’s history, but it is fitting for all people of faith.
(2008/04/26)
In a new survey of scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency, more than half of those who responded said they had experienced political interference in their work.
(2008/04/24)
If you have any doubts that Wisconsin has a dangerous culture of alcohol abuse, the latest national statistics about drunken driving should put those doubts to rest.
(2008/04/23)
Health care is not a problem that has a quick and reasonable fix. There is simply no magic bullet that will address every real and perceived failing of the system. Anyone who has ever tried to make perfect sense of their insurance policy or go through a hospital bill line-by-line knows that there’s more to the problem than meets the eye.
(2008/04/23)
STEVENS POINT, Wis. — The official bogeyman of Earth Week 2008 is biofuels.
(2008/04/23)
It’s good news that the La Crosse area now has Emergency Medical Dispatch, and that it seems to have been implemented without problems.
(2008/04/22)
A story in Saturday’s Tribune about civil rights advocate Joe Morse of Winona, Minn., was an eye opener.
(2008/04/21)
A family advocacy group is working with anti-poverty agencies and local governments for an ambitious goal: To end child poverty in Wisconsin by 2020.
(2008/04/21)
The allure of the highest office in the land can make candidates say the darndest things.
(2008/04/20)
I knew it was trouble as soon as I said it. I was walking toward the copy machine, and a co-worker was already there, looking through the paper copies.
(2008/04/20)
We adopted Georgie three months ago. What an experience it has been for both of us: a learning experience about the rewards of helping a dog who was rescued by one of our local animal shelters, and the problem of abandoned and unwanted dogs in Wisconsin and the nation.
(2008/04/20)
As a child I was told to clean my plate because there were people starving in China, it seemed silly. How would getting sick help hungry Chinese? That was in the 1950s, the heart of the green revolution.
(2008/04/19)
Hats off to Galesville Fire Chief Dan Henderson for banning alcohol in the firehouse.
(2008/04/17)
Rep. Ron Kind is among Congress members of both parties calling for reform of the “earmarking” process, by which unrelated spending proposals get added to bills — often late in the process and with little oversight.
(2008/04/16)
Going fishing? If so, you might be contributing to a very large economic impact on our area.
(2008/04/15)
untreated mental illnesses Wednesday is the first anniversary of the shootings at Virginia Tech, and a time to remember the 32 students and professor who were shot and killed by a lone student with a history of mental illness.
(2008/04/14)
It’s close to 4 p.m. in the La Crosse Public Library, and the usual crowd is reading newspapers and magazines.
(2008/04/14)
Back when I was in high school, we had a couple of people who were good looking, a couple of people who were great athletes, one girl who could sing so pretty it would bring tears to my eyes, a couple of brains, and a guy who could play the guitar like Paul Simon.
(2008/04/12)
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle signed a bill Monday that will allow virtual schools to qualify for state aid.
(2008/04/12)
Repeatedly on a recent Monday I heard a parade of commentators say “4,000 is just another number, with no special status” other than what we “overly dramatize it to have.”
(2008/04/10)
Winston Churchill said, “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing — after they’ve tried everything else.” John McCain says, “Controlling health care costs will take fundamental change — nothing short of a complete reform of the culture of our health system and the way we pay for it will suffice.”
(2008/04/10)
If you cared enough to vote on the last La Crosse school referendum questions, this isn’t the time to relax.
(2008/04/09)
Remember the Ross Perot movement of 1992? It was a remarkable movement in which citizens got involved in politics out of concern about government spending.
(2008/04/09)
Voters in 48 school districts went to the polls last Tuesday to vote on raising property taxes to pay for schools. Many of these referendums were asking voters to approve spending for routine school operations and maintenance.
(2008/04/08)
By any measure, last week’s local elections included issues that should have been of interest to voters.
(2008/04/07)
On the 40th anniversary last week of the assassination of civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Wisconsin residents received news about how African American students were falling behind in writing.
(2008/04/06)
I used to complain that judicial races were boring. Candidates were reluctant to say anything of substance, and there was a veneer of decorum that made it impossible for reporters to find any edges in the debate.
(2008/04/06)
For the second straight spring election cycle, Wisconsin has been the scene of a hard-fought, and many would say “dirty,” Supreme Court race. After last spring’s battle between Annette Ziegler and Linda Clifford, a race in which special interest groups shattered campaign spending records, we have once again been subjected to a nasty campaign between Michael Gablemen and Louis Butler.
(2008/04/05)
Shortly after George W. Bush was elected president by a razor-thin margin in 2000, his new administration began to sever ties between the United States and other nations.
(2008/04/03)
La Crosse School District residents have voted to allow the district to exceed state revenue limits — allowing schools to continue to offer many of the existing programs.
(2008/04/02)
Rep. Ron Kind believes U.S. farm subsidies give too much money to wealthy individuals who don’t need it — and neglect issues like conservation and rural economic development.
(2008/04/01)
The Mental Health Coalition of Greater La Crosse held a remarkable event last Wednesday.
(2008/03/31)
Area musicians would like to see a better performance facility in Riverside Park. But if historic preservationists have their way, that likely will not happen.
(2008/03/30)
I will confess to a personal bias when it comes to architecture. I like old buildings. Perhaps my particular point of view about historic preservation was influenced by my upbringing in an older neighborhood in a small town near Chicago.
(2008/03/30)
Pro: Public sector must be more efficient By STEVE GORES | La Crosse During a recent interview with the Tribune, Dick Peterson, chairman of the Vote No School Referendum Committee said this about the La Crosse School District’s requests: “In the economics of business, you have to reduce expenses or you don’t stay in business. But in the public sector, you just add taxes and get away with it.”
(2008/03/26)
Voters in the city of Onalaska are fortunate to have two good candidates for mayor, but we believe Mike Giese has a broader range of professional experiences and a better grasp of complicated issues involved in running a city of 16,000 people.
(2008/03/25)
We support incumbent Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler over his opponent, Burnett County Circuit Court Judge Michael Gableman, based on his experience and the way he responds to questions with specific detail and thoughtfulness.
(2008/03/23)
The La Crosse School District’s request to increase the amount of money available to operate the schools, and to increase spending for a new school and repairs at existing schools, makes sense.
(2008/03/23)
A few years ago, I met a group of inspirational young men. They are hard-working family men who want to change the world. They care more about social justice than making money, although they have experienced a decent amount of success in their careers. They found a way of using their job to connect people with important issues around the world.
(2008/03/20)
Here’s a story that shows why open government is so important.
(2008/03/18)
Holmen village officials are right to respond promptly to a complaint about a star and cross display on village-owned land.
(2008/03/16)
A bill that would have allowed additional money for financial aid for University of Wisconsin-La Crosse students died in the state Senate — the victim of the Democratic leadership.
(2008/03/16)
“The man who taught us the way football should be played.”
(2008/03/16)
PRO: Court race is hijacked by special interests Millions of people throughout the world have been captivated by John Grisham’s fictional legal thrillers.
(2008/03/16)
CON: Are we afraid of democracy in judicial elections?
(2008/03/15)
President Bush wants to allow the CIA to torture detainees, even though his top general in Iraq thinks that’s a bad idea.
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