Bars and restaurants have been among the businesses hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Many were shutdown for a time, while some are just now reopening....
When you and I were young, we may have had to visit the school nurse because of a stomach ache, or an injury on the playground....
Perhaps now we will finally get some answers. Foxconn says it has, for the first time, hired enough people to be eligible for state aid. The...
There are no easy answers. Should schools reopen, and if so, how? Most school districts, including La Crosse, have put together some possible plans for a...
What is happening in Portland, Oregon is not a good look. Following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, protesters have taken to the streets of...
The United States is, we are told, the greatest country in the world. Then how did we get things so wrong? While other countries have been...
It has been for many their only lifeline. An extra $600 per week in unemployment benefits is set to expire at the end of this month....
These days, trying to get by without a computer or another connection to the internet can be extremely difficult. You need access to the world wide...
There are many conflicting opinions on how to defeat the coronavirus. Tactics vary by country, by state, even county and city. I tend to put my...
It is not too late yet. But it is getting there. The November presidential election is now less than four months away, but it isn’t yet...
They are to be called the people’s maps. A group of Wisconsin citizens is being sought to redraw Wisconsin’s legislative boundaries, done every ten years after...
What isn’t happening is shameful. For more than a month, protesters in La Crosse, in Madison, throughout the country and even the world have called for...
We all want schools to be able to reopen in the fall. But wishing it doesn’t make it so. Schools across the country, including in La...
It seems that just about everyone who wanted some, got some. The U.S. Treasury Department has now released a list of who got money from the...
It’s been quite a year. Finally, we are halfway through 2020, but some are warning the second half of the year from hell could be worse...
One thing that seems clear about this pandemic is the need for the truth. As individuals and a community we can make the most informed decisions...
Happy Fourth of July weekend. This of course looks much different than most past Independence Days. We are still in the middle of a pandemic, and...
Is it time to embrace the mask? Few things have been as controversial throughout this pandemic as wearing masks. Whether a person is wearing a mask...
It seems so long ago now when the coronavirus pandemic started. Indeed, it has been more than three months since we started seeing cases in Wisconsin....
Perhaps the one consistent thing about this corona-crisis is just how inconsistent it all has been. Some people get severe symptoms, some not at all. Some...