What if we made decisions based on what’s good for the people?

By County Line | Posted August 27th, 2020 | Tweet

Many moons ago, before I made the silly decision to go into the newspaper business, I made other, equally bad decisions. Most notably was the absurd idea that I would make a good beekeeper.

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Campaigns have changed, as evidenced by ‘F*CK Your Feelings’ signs

6 hours ago
by County Line

My goodness, times have changed. I was reminded of that the other day when, as I was leaving Cashton on Highway 33, I noticed a Trump 2020 sign. This year, there are so many election signs that they tend to blend into the landscape.

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Former Wilton man describes air quality outside his Seattle residence

September 17th, 2020
by County Line

A picture of Seattle’s iconic space needle shrouded in smoke flashed across my television screen this weekend.

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‘Peace Data’ is a lovely name for a website

September 11th, 2020
by County Line

“Peace Data” — What a lovely name for a website. Who isn’t in favor of peace

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It’s a mad, mad world

September 1st, 2020
by County Line

So, there it was, graffiti scrawled across the front of the old Kendall Motors building. And not just your usual, impolite, crude stuff one finds in bathrooms.

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2020 marks 100th year since women got right to vote

July 30th, 2020
by County Line

Ah, the times they are a-changin’, as recently demonstrated by Florida Congressman Ted Yoho (R-Fla.), who evidently believed it was okay to call a coworker a “f*cking b*tch” on the steps of the capitol.

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Will the pandemic prompt a new back-to-the-land movement?

July 22nd, 2020
by County Line

Despite using the Internet for decades, I still forget how interconnected it has made us all.

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Our need for a better healthcare system

July 17th, 2020
by County Line

I had an opportunity to go undercover to the frontlines last week, when a stubborn lung infection sent me on a three-day rest at Mayo Clinic in Sparta.

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At least we have better masks than they did during the plague

June 25th, 2020
by County Line

So, you say you don’t like wearing a mask?

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Let’s have a serious discussion on the role of police

June 18th, 2020
by County Line

On Oct. 17, 1949, the La Crosse Tribune reported that two Native American women, Dorene Brown, 25, and Marie Wadel, 24, were kidnapped in Scotts Bluff, Neb., and driven in a stolen car to Ontario, where the abductors stopped to get gas.

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What they didn’t teach you in history class

June 15th, 2020
by County Line

Here is stuff they did not teach you in history class.

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We should have made more progress since 1968

June 3rd, 2020
by County Line

As further evidence that I can be a slow learner, it took me 10 years to conclude that my grand adventure at big-city life was, well, an unqualified flop.

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