Habitat's Kahya Fox got her hands on La Crosse's Pink Palace, before its demo

Kahya Fox, executive director Habitat For Humanity of the Greater La Crosse Region, in studio discussing housing in the city, parking regulations and what’s happening to the Pink Palace on Main Street. Fox was part of a recent housing study released by the city. That study came away with these rec…

Carol Abrahamzon on preserving the driftless through the Mississippi Valley Conservancy

Carol Abrahamzon, executive director Mississippi Valley Conservancy, in the WIZM studio highlighting the work they do, how they do it and how we can take advantage. The conservancy has protected over 26,000 acres of land in the area and 7,000 of that is open to the public.  Abrahamzon talks about…

Mt. La Crosse's Darcie Breidel telling stories as the ski hill turns 65

As Mt. La Crosse celebrates its 65th year, Darcie Breidel has been there more than half that time. The executive director joined La Crosse Talk this week to tell stories, as we tried to convince her to steal the snow machine and bring it to town in July.One of the stories Breidel told was of the UW…

Updates on Homeless, police-crisis response unit, civilian review board with La Crosse County admin. Klekamp

La Crosse County administrator, Jane Klekamp, in studio with an update on the homeless plan, how the co-response unit has done this year — pairing police and crisis responders — where the civilian review board is at and how county taxes compare to the rest of the state. We started the show, though…

La Crosse Schools superintendent Engel on good and bad of Act 10, school day start changes

La Crosse Schools superintendent, Dr. Aaron Engel, joined to discuss the good and bad after Act 10, new school start times, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ budget listening session and some of the more interesting field trip proposals he’s experienced. Also, proposed an idea to Engel that San Diego Sta…

Explaining going from 50 degrees to below zero in three days with the National Weather's Ricciotti

National Weather Service - La Crosse forecaster Joseph Ricciotti explaining how we get a 50-degree weekend, while temps are about to drop to below zero.  Ricciotti also talked about the potential for snow on Wednesday but steered well clear of trying to predict a white Christmas. Lastly, we hit o…

Holmen YMCA update, remembering Mike Hayes with La Crosse Y CEO Bill Soper

Bill Soper, the president of the La Crosse Area YMCAs, joins to reminisce a bit about doing segments for 30 years with Mike Hayes, who passed away last week. We also got a bit of an update on a future YMCA in Holmen, plus how the La Crosse YMCAs have evolved to more than just a place to work out ov…

Principal of Fun has to be the best job in La Crosse

Drea Higgins, the associate director at the Children's Museum of La Crosse joins to chat about what's happening this month, including a big traditional celebration they do each New Year's Eve — at noon, because they're kids. We also got into some of the special programming that goes on at the child…

Viterbo volleyball coach Ryan DeLong as team continues in tourney

Longtime Viterbo volleyball coach Ryan DeLong joined WIZM's La Crosse Talk, as his team continues in the NAIA tournament. We discuss volleyball in the area, the expectations — perhaps unfairly — put on the 15th-ranked V-Hawks to seemingly always qualify for the postseason and how they got here this…

UW-La Crosse football coach Janus on playoff Round 2, ahead of Turkey Day

UW-La Crosse football coach Matt Janus joined to talk a bit about Round 2 of the Division III playoffs Saturday, ahead of Thanksgiving. Janus and the No. 16 Eagles (7-3) face the third-ranked team in the country, unbeaten St. John's (10-0). That game can be heard on WKTY, beginning at 11:45 a.m. Sa…