(2008/11/22)
This past Wednesday I spent the best 90 minutes I’ve had since I don’t know when.
(2008/11/21)
As I child, I’d sit on the couch watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade while my mom clanked dishes in the kitchen.
(2008/11/20)
Smoking. Alcohol. Gay marriage. Brett Favre. Jim Doyle. Presidential politics. God.
(2008/11/19)
WINONA, Minn. — All right, here’s something to think about while you’re running those credit card come-ons through your handy double-cross-cut shredder: How much would it take for you to allow your Social Security number to run in 24-point bold type in a 4-column spread in the A-section of the Chicago Tribune? Oh, and your name, full home address, photograph and details of your family life will be included.
(2008/11/18)
The city of La Crosse recently sent a letter to employees with grim news and an unknown prognosis.
(2008/11/17)
ONALASKA — One is smitten with the new, four-story architecturally gorgeous Eagle Crest senior living community on Mason Street, but its real beauty is the happiness of its residents.
(2008/11/16)
Angus Stewart used to look down on people who stayed in shelters.
(2008/11/15)
Nothing says historic presidential election like the made-up word Obamania. I don’t even know how to say it, but I’m pretty sure I’m caught up in it.
(2008/11/14)
Good humor is one thing that is shared around the world.
(2008/11/13)
Well, the air conditioners are out of the windows, the leaves are out of the trees, the snow shovels are out of the cellar and my long johns are out of storage. It’s mid-November, and I’m ready to hunker down until spring.
(2008/11/11)
The Veterans Day holiday today gave the La Crosse County Board an extra day to pass its 2009 budget.
(2008/11/10)
“If we can’t do anything different than what a travel agent does, there’s no need to offer a trip,” says Burt Altman, retired professor of research, human relations and curricula development at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
(2008/11/09)
Hope was enfleshed in a historical way last week. We, the people who began with white oppression of black, together chose the son of black and white parents to lead us.
(2008/11/08)
If you haven’t eaten at Judy Bouffleur’s house, then you haven’t really made it in La Crosse.
(2008/11/07)
There was cause for celebration Wednesday at Hogan Administrative Center, but the balloons, cake and pep band weren’t absent.
(2008/11/06)
Some election bile still remained Wednesday morning at www.lacrossetribune.com - visitors more anti-Bush than pro-Obama, or Obama-phobics clutching to the viral falsehoods that flooded the Internet these many months.
(2008/11/05)
As I write this, votes are being cast, bets are being laid and the next act of our political soap opera is being written. I wouldn’t go very far in venturing a prediction on the plot’s next twist and squiggle, but this much I’m quite sure of, despite the dire declamations of the past few weeks, I doubt very much if the dawn’s early light shone on a red flag flying in front of the post office.
(2008/11/04)
My colleague Dan Springer, with whom I share this column space on a rotating basis, confessed something very personal to Tribune readers last week.
(2008/11/03)
The other day I received a lovely letter from reader Joyce Halvorson of Casberg Coulee in Holmen. In it, she praises her husband, Jim, for an exemplary life devoted — in no particular order — to community service, church, family and volunteerism.
(2008/11/02)
Ricarlos Cain can’t vote. But that didn’t stop him from having a conversation with abortion protesters Thursday as he made his way to the La Crosse County Democratic Headquarters on Sixth Street.
(2008/11/01)
To say I was a geek in high school would be sugar-coating it. So when I recently was asked to talk to a high school class, I was of two minds.
(2008/10/31)
College and university faculty likely hear all kinds of reasons why students need to miss class — but should voting be an acceptable excuse?
(2008/10/30)
A debate between a Christian historian and an atheist drew hundreds to the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse campus Sunday night — and dozens and dozens of comments from readers the next day at www.lacrossetribune.com.
(2008/10/29)
I may not know a lot of things, but this one thing I know: There shouldn’t be suds floating in the toilet on a Sunday afternoon.
(2008/10/28)
When I was given this space a few months ago, I promised myself I wouldn’t turn it into a space to write about me. But the time has come for me to make an exception and get something off my chest.
(2008/10/27)
CALEDONIA, Minn. — Unforgettable Chuck Rollins, 84, is not a rockin’-chair type of guy.
(2008/10/26)
There’s just something about a witch. Last October, I did a story about Israel Shvhi V. Magdalene Rose, 51, of Melvina.
(2008/10/24)
La Crosse school officials regularly look for ways to boost enrollment, which in turn generates additional dollars.
(2008/10/23)
Will that piece of history known as the Great Depression repeat itself in the wake of the current credit meltdown?
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