Richard Kyte is director of the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership at Viterbo University in La Crosse.
- Travis Devlin
In his recent book “To Rescue the American Spirit,” Bret Baier makes a case for comparing Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump.
- By Stephanie Klett and Bill Barth
The late golf guru Harvey Penick once said, “The woods are full of long drivers.”
- By Stephanie Klett and Bill Barth
A sumptuous repast is a treat for the senses.
- John Halverson
I remember watching Tiger Woods on TV at the old JC Penney in Janesville.
- By Stephanie Klett and Bill Barth
Give a kid a balloon and just step back and watch the fun.
The women who own Green Grocer in Williams Bay – Jennifer Veith, Dawn Marie Mancuso and Jane Larson (Jennifer’s identical twin sister) – were ahead of their time.
At first, I was willing to accept that it was a woman in the wrong place at the wrong time doing the wrong thing.
I don’t know if Zohran Mamdani is a metaphor for the future or just a flash in the pan.
Some places, as soon as you walk in, feel comfortable.
President Harry Truman’s death occurred the day after Christmas in 1972. Since the anniversary of that event is upon us, I had an excuse to write this column.
I was standing in the checkout line at a grocery store, and the clerk was talking to a customer.
When it’s cold and snowy and you want to complain, pause and think. You live in the upper Midwest. By choice.
“Where did that come from?” my girlfriend said one day.
A man walked past me the other day as I was reading the newspaper at a McDonald’s.
At first, I couldn’t figure out why the flags were at half-staff.
Anything that lasts 50 years – a marriage, a career, a community event – has reached a big-deal milestone.

