Editorial

Take a bow, America.

We don’t often see eye-to-eye with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, but we agree that it would be a bad thing if Amazon were the only retailer left in the country. We also agree there’s reason to fear the power that Facebook and Google wield, or could wield someday.

As we look hopefully for areas where our Democratic governor and Republican-majority legislative houses can find common ground in the budget process, we think we’ve found one.

What happens when you kick the issue of road funding down the road for too long? You get potholes — lots of potholes.

The U.S. Department of Interior announced last week it plans to end protections for wolves in Wisconsin.

The best way to avoid a deadly or debilitating fall as you age is to understand the danger — and act on it.

The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association has unfortunately decided to go to the mat and appeal Racine County Circuit Court Judge Michael J. Piontek’s granting of an injunction that allowed Waterford High School wrestler Hayden Halter to continue wrestling and ultimately win the Div…

As he had previously announced, Gov. Tony Evers’ budget address Feb. 28 called for freezing enrollment in the state’s voucher school programs.

Ray Cross recently brought an encouraging message to the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and the community.

Gov. Tony Evers has included some strong priorities in his state budget proposal.

One recent state legislative hearing encapsulated the staffing crisis that plagues Nebraska’s prisons system.

A fruitless conflict that threatens the global economy should not be left to continue indefinitely. In order to calm the confrontation, both the United States and China should make further efforts to reach a compromise.

If the latest apparent hate-crime hoax of the Trump era is what it looks like, it isn’t merely a story of a desperate actor doing something insane. It’s a story of today’s progressive identity politics and how it elevates group victimhood to the highest of virtues.

Public defenders definitely deserve a raise. The $40-per-hour rate for private lawyers appointed by the Public Defender’s Office is the lowest in the nation and hasn’t increased since 1995.

President Donald Trump likes to say he hires only the best people and that his White House operates like a well-oiled machine.

Too many children, especially in rural Wisconsin, are going without proper dental care.

Neither Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam nor Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, each embroiled in scandal, gives any indication they are considering leaving office despite the broad consensus of the state’s political establishment that they do so. That doesn’t absolve the two Democrats of the obligation to…

If a disease were striking children, causing rash and fever and sometimes escalating to brain swelling, pneumonia and even death, there would be a public demand to do something about it.

Suspending driver’s licenses for failure to pay tickets or fines is a growing problem in Wisconsin, and other states.

The short-term fix for better Wisconsin roads is a modest increase in the gas tax, which hasn’t been raised in more than a decade.

A bipartisan team of Wisconsin congressmen want to limit the president’s power to unilaterally impose tariffs by claiming the nation’s security is at risk.

Six years ago this month, the La Crosse Tribune editorial board wrote about problems caused by low pay set by the state to reimburse private attorneys representing indigent clients in our criminal justice system.

That phone in your hand might as well be a giant beacon, calling attention to your location and a lot of items you thought were private.