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February 17th, 2023 |
By KAREN PARKER | Retired County Line Publisher What is it about men who want to slip into ladies’ lingerie…
Okay, it wasn’t a huge surprise. There has been chatter for some years. But this week, the publisher of the La Crosse Tribune announced the newspaper will print only on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Although it certainly has not been fun for the area folks caught up in the “hemp mania” that infected our area over the past few years (see the County Line’s April 6 issue), at least it was something I could understand.
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Publisher Emerita karen@thecountyline.net Okay, we were warned. Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race will be the...
It seems nearly impossible that in the 21st century, Afghanistan has the “proud” distinction of being the only country in the world where girls are not allowed any education beyond grade school.
Now I better understand one of the subjects the cable news talking heads have been discussing ardently the past several years. Considering the furor, you would have thought it was a pornography or sex education or, heaven forbid, evolution. But, no, it is “The 1619 Project,” now banned in Florida schools.
Imagine, if you will, two men stealing a car in Denver, fleeing across the country to Wisconsin, and kidnapping two women along the way.
to be flipping through the channels Sunday, looking for something to amuse me on another of our endless dreary January days, when I stumbled across Ken Burns’ documentary “The US and the Holocaust.” I had viewed the full six hours when it was first released on PBS, but in my dotage, I had forgotten enough of it that once started, I could not look away.
Okay, it’s time to take down the tree and shove the champagne glasses back on the high shelf that we short folks cannot reach.
Until we added streaming service to our television watching, I never realized how many Christmas movies there are.
I had just polished off a plate loaded with things I should not have eaten at the recent Norwalk Community Thanksgiving dinner when it occurred to me that I had not seen a single Latino face.
I recently was browsing through my very tattered and worn copy of “The Wiltonians.” Local history books will never be on the New York Times bestseller list, but they do become a constant reminder of where we have been, and in some cases, where we are headed.
