(2008/07/24)
A recent study shows that the 57 invasive species that have been dumped in the Great Lakes by oceangoing ships has cost the United States about $2 billion every 10 years.
(2008/07/23)
An interesting offer from Trane Co. has presented La Crosse school officials with an opportunity and a challenge.
(2008/07/23)
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of First Lt. Nick A. Dewhirst of Onalaska, Wis., who died Sunday from injuries received in combat in Afghanistan.
(2008/07/22)
We haven’t heard much lately about a “gas tax holiday.” That’s probably because reality has set in even at the national political level.
(2008/07/21)
Here’s something to think about: The last La Crosse area child to die of mosquito-borne encephalitis was 30 years ago.
(2008/07/20)
I was sitting in the kitchen, watching Bill O’Reilly on Fox News, when my wife came in and caught me.
(2008/07/20)
The advocates of “Peak Oil” are predicting the demise of petroleum. They point to world production reaching a plateau of about 85 million barrels per day against steadily growing demand in China and India.
(2008/07/20)
During my years on a farm in southeastern Wisconsin, my parents taught their five children to live a life of careful conservation and land and water stewardship long before anyone we knew was talking about “going green.” This was simply representative of their Christian values, of a rural land ethic my father learned growing up on a farm himself, and it made for smart, long-term business decision-making.
(2008/07/19)
Someone would have to be asleep to miss the bad economic news lately including the loss of paper mill jobs in the Fox River Valley, the impending closing of the General Motors plant in Janesville and the dearth of family-supporting manufacturing jobs statewide.
(2008/07/17)
During a time when some national media and the Internet beat a relentless anti-immigrant drumbeat, there was quiet good news in La Crosse schools recently.
(2008/07/16)
It could be freezing, it could be raining or it could be somewhere in between.
(2008/07/16)
Clearly, the Bush administration hoped it would never come to this, but a day of reckoning over detainees in Guantanamo is approaching quickly. Lawyers for the Justice Department appeared in a Washington federal courtroom Tuesday to argue for yet another delay in deciding how to deal with most of the 270 individuals who remain confined at the island prison, only to be rebuffed by a stern judge. “The time has come to move these forward,” Judge Thomas F. Hogan told the lawyers. “Set aside every other case.”
(2008/07/15)
La Crosse School Board members are considering what options they have and district residents need to be paying attention to that process.
(2008/07/14)
A Wisconsin Supreme Court decision calling for openness in business development negotiations is a welcome one.
(2008/07/14)
Each fall, about 58,000 students, or 1 in 4 Wisconsin college-bound undergrads, choose to attend a private college or university in the state.
(2008/07/13)
It’s time to dump the demeaning name of Downtown La Crosse’s annual sidewalk sale.
(2008/07/13)
Dr. Tractor and the Garlic Stackers. Buzz Butler. Disorient Express. Bob. Gravel Road. The Wails. If you don’t recognize these band names you probably were not going to see live music in La Crosse 20 years ago.
(2008/07/13)
Italy today is groaning under the weight of immense structural problems. It suffers from the slowest economic growth rate in the European Union. Italians have lost faith in their political leaders’ abilities to find solutions to the long-term malaise that has set upon this nation, whose territory houses so much evidence of past greatness.
(2008/07/12)
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama suggested that American students should study Spanish. From the outcry, one might have thought he was advocating the overthrow of our government.
(2008/07/10)
At the G-8 conference in Tokayo, Japan, on Wednesday, President Bush praised the “significant progress” that has been made on global warming.
(2008/07/09)
La Crosse school officials are trying to figure out how to meet several pressing physical needs.
(2008/07/08)
A story Sunday by Tribune reporter Chris Hubbuch told what it is like to ride the train between here and Milwaukee.
(2008/07/08)
In the escalating dispute between developers of the proposed Candlewood Suites hotel and Collins Outdoor Advertising Inc., Collins has been portrayed as the villain by the city and the press. A sober examination of the facts would say otherwise.
(2008/07/07)
You probably don’t want to read yet another editorial calling for a smoke-free workplace law for Wisconsin including banning smoking in bars.
(2008/07/07)
The La Crosse Common Council is meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall to consider an ordinance for registering and limiting single-family houses being used as rental property.
(2008/07/07)
Summer is a popular time for weddings, and one of my favorite things is watching the bride and groom as they look at each other. Do you remember admiring your spouse that way? When was the last time you and your spouse just looked into each other’s eyes?
(2008/07/07)
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent affirmation of the “Right of the People” to bear arms was long overdue. Our U. S. Constitution was written to guarantee that the civil rights we have would not be abridged by any government entity. After the lessons learned from the tyrannical rule of the British and the resultant Revolutionary War, the last thing our forefathers wanted was a government that could remove our rights with the stroke of a pen.
(2008/07/07)
Repeal the 2nd Amendment. No, we don’t suppose that’s going to happen any time soon. But it should. The 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is evidence that, while the founding fathers were brilliant men, they could have used an editor.
(2008/07/05)
Today is the Fourth of July Independence Day. On this date we celebrate the approval by the Continental Congress of a declaration of independence from Great Britain.
(2008/07/05)
America’s veterans groups have historically taken lead roles in promoting and preserving the concepts of Americanism, patriotism, and respect for the U.S. Constitution and flag.
(2008/07/03)
The botched hiring of a new chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside has legislative opponents of the UW System absolutely drooling with delight.
(2008/07/02)
When James Webb got elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006, his first act was to introduce a bill increasing education benefits for U.S. war veterans.
(2008/07/01)
It’s a little quieter in town since a couple thousand motorcyclists went home. But the weekend was an interesting experience and it was fun to have downtown La Crosse so packed with people and their amazing machines.
(2008/06/30)
U.S. officials are right to be concerned about the fate of some 800 Hmong people who were forced to leave Thailand and return to Laos, where they believe their lives will be in danger.
(2008/06/30)
Dairyland Power Cooperative has a long history of finding and maximizing beneficial reuses for our coal combustion byproducts. Today, bottom and fly ash are mainly used as road base, anti-skid material and in cement production.
(2008/06/30)
We seldom think about the availability of food. As a nation, we have never been hungry, and until recently, food shortages always happened somewhere else.
(2008/06/29)
When you get old and frail, who will take care of you?
(2008/06/29)
When President Bush declared recently that we are “addicted to oil” he was not exactly on target. Actually, Americans are addicted to the automobile.
(2008/06/29)
It’s only coincidence that communities across Wisconsin are required to have their much vaunted comprehensive plans completed just about the time the last SUV rolls off the General Motors assembly line in Janesville.
(2008/06/29)
To the extent the renewed push for increased oil and natural gas exploration and development is based on the notion that the purpose of the effort is to immediately reduce the overall price of oil is, at the very least, misguided. The current high price of oil is supported by at least three
(2008/06/28)
The job of recovering from the early-June floods in Wisconsin will take time and involve governments at all levels in addition to private citizens and organizations.
(2008/06/26)
Onalaska business leader Dave Skogen has some ideas about how to invigorate Sunfish Days, that community’s Memorial Day festival.
(2008/06/26)
Last Sunday morning, in a house fire, our community lost a child. As fire chief, I am disheartened by this and would like to turn our attention to the vital importance of fire safety.
(2008/06/25)
We’re used to thinking about floods and other bad storms as “natural disasters.”
(2008/06/24)
The most exciting aspects of Barack Obama’s campaign are the idealism of his message (which has appealed to millions of young people) and the notion that he is different from most politicians.
(2008/06/23)
My first impression of La Crosse, while driving toward downtown on the Causeway in 1974, was that this was a dumpy-looking city in the middle of a beautiful valley.
(2008/06/23)
No one could have expected the flooding that has taken place in Wiscon-sin. Homes and businesses, schools, crop fields and churches destroyed; dozens of communities and the spirit of many devastated.
(2008/06/22)
A couple of news releases last week were more important than they seemed.
(2008/06/22)
Early in the day, the man came out of the hotel and approached a volunteer. Stuffing bills into the can she held, he said, “I’m not from around here, but I know what you’re going through. I’m from Louisiana.”
(2008/06/22)
When my first child was born 18 years ago, a lovely woman from La Crescent came to my home and brought me a meal.
(2008/06/21)
Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s suggestion to have a series of town hall meetings was quickly brushed off by Democrat Barack Obama.
(2008/06/19)
La Crosse city officials are being cautious about whether to ban late-night drink specials or encourage tavern owners from voluntarily banning them.
(2008/06/18)
Wisconsin needs a better-educated work force. It also has lots of physical infrastructure needs including repairing or replacing aging road surfaces and bridges. We might add dams to the list.
(2008/06/16)
The U.S. Supreme Court, by a divided and emotional decision, has struck a blow for the rule of law even in a time of war.
(2008/06/15)
A story in Friday’s Tribune shows how the prospect of electoral politics gets in the way of government actually doing something.
(2008/06/15)
Thirty-thousand feet above the sprawling Great Plains landscape, a stewardess pauses next to my less-than-sprawling airline seat.
(2008/06/15)
Sports play a major role in American culture. As a companion to that, so do setting and breaking records.
(2008/06/14)
For two candidates who promised either to transform American politics or to offer “straight talk,” the beginning of the general election campaign between Barack Obama and John McCain has been Washington politics as usual.
(2008/06/12)
Last week La Crosse city officials began looking for a way to prevent a new bar from locating on Third Street, just south of Main.
(2008/06/11)
Given the tragic failure and collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis on Aug. 1, 2007, and the closing of the Interstate Bridge in Winona for inspection due to corrosion, the idea of Wisconsin’s governor “borrowing” from the transportation fund to balance the state budget seems almost frightening.
(2008/06/09)
Here’s a disturbing trend for students in two-year technical or community colleges: Several large banks have decided to stop offering loans for two-year colleges.
(2008/06/08)
An AARP public discussion about health care reform showed why it is so hard to achieve.
(2008/06/08)
I am an American journalist who reported from Seoul in the mid-1980s when a thaw between North and South Korea seemed impossible.
(2008/06/07)
Barack Obama has secured the Democratic presidential nomination. Now what does he do about Hillary Clinton?
(2008/06/04)
Tuesday’s announcement that General Motors would close its truck plant in Janesville, Wis., was a sobering reminder of the fragile nature of older manufacturing plants and how irreplaceable those jobs are.
(2008/06/03)
Sen. Russ Decker, the Democratic leader of the Wisconsin state Senate, had a guest column in last Thursday’s Tribune, explaining why he killed a proposal in March that would have provided more financial aid to low- and middle-income students at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
(2008/06/02)
The discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill sparked the great California Gold Rush. Now, 160 years later, a fresh discovery in the Golden State may launch another rush. This time, it would be a rush to the altar, after a recently unearthed (and previously unknown) constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Many homosexual rights activists greeted the court’s decision with glee, but their boom of jubilation likely will go bust.
(2008/06/01)
The stadium at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse part of a sports complex named in honor of our military veterans will soon face the wrecking ball.
(2008/06/01)
Rarely a week goes by that we don’t read over generalizations in the Tribune’s letters to the editor. Sometimes it’s that all government officials are corrupt.
(2008/05/31)
It’s interesting to note that a popular downtown bar has decided to go smoke free.
(2008/05/29)
The only time I ever waited in line for gasoline was in 1973, during the October war involving Israel, Egypt and Syria.
(2008/05/29)
Your recent editorial about the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s tuition changes does not accurately tell the story of how the university came to its current problem.
(2008/05/27)
What in the world was Joell E. Schigur thinking? Schigur used to be the director of the Wisconsin Justice Department’s Public Integrity Bureau.
(2008/05/26)
Let’s hope you’ve had an enjoyable weekend so far.
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