Webster

Remember learning about the three branches of government way back in your school days?   There is the Legislative Branch that is elected by the people to make the laws. There is the Executive…

Women’s History Week was first observed in March of 1980 when Jimmy Carter was President.  This annual observation was a week for most of that decade until Congress changed it to a month in…

The February 18th non-partisan Wisconsin Supreme Court Primary selected two candidates to face off in the April 7th election.  There were local elections scattered about the Coulee Region and…

In Monroe County, the Grand Old Party, the Republican Party, appears to be getting younger.  The Republican Party dates from before Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860; some 160…

Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District, which reaches into the Coulee Region in parts of Jackson, Juneau, and Monroe Counties, will have a primary election for their Representative to Congress to…

The November 2020 elections are about eleven months away and yet in western Wisconsin, the congressional campaigns are beginning to become active.  The obvious reason is the Special Election…

Rep Ron Kind’s recent newspaper column started with “Recently I had the opportunity to join colleagues on both sides of the aisle on a trip to the Middle East…” which I read with great interest…

The big news in the main street media recently was that Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey had sent a bill for $530,000 to the Trump campaign to cover the extra security costs for the President’s…

On October 8th Governor Tony Evers signed Executive Order #50 “Relating to Declaring Indigenous Peoples Day” which declared the second Monday in October to be the Indigenous Peoples Day in…

For forty or more years the State of Wisconsin has had a “no-fault” divorce system which for all practical purposes became a “no-contest” system as well.  This involved changing from the…