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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris agree on at least one thing. Both want to change the rules and get rid of filibusters. But both are wrong. The use of filibusters may seem like a tactic for obstruction, and in some cases that is true. Ted Cruz once spent 21 hours on the floor of the […]

It sounds good. Perhaps too good to be true. But the state of Wisconsin is reporting a marked increase in student’s test scores across the state. The latest numbers show that 51% of Wisconsin public school students were measured at being proficient in English and Language Arts. That is up significantly from last year, when […]

 In baseball, you wouldn’t pull the starting pitcher before the reliever is warmed up and ready to go. You probably wouldn’t throw away an old wallet until you had a new one to replace it. And you probably wouldn’t dump your cell phone provider until you had selected another. Why then should we dump the […]

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 […]