Jerome
Jerome Christenson: Apocalypse? Not now
Well, it looks like there’s one more movie I won’t be going to see.
Nov 18, 2009 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Jerome Christenson: This soldier was no quitter
Forty years ago, Veterans Day, 1969. Page 3 of the Winona Daily News:
Nov 11, 2009 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Columnist Jerome Christenson: Mourning the loss of soaping
Three days after Halloween and around town the windows don't look any cleaner than they did the last day of October. I guess kids really don't soap windows anymore.
Nov 04, 2009 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Jerome Christenson: Domestic heroism on the cheap
Two down ... the rest of the species to go.
Oct 28, 2009 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Jerome Christenson: A shot worth taking
The year I was born 58,000 Americans - most of them children - came down with polio; more than 21,000 were paralyzed; 3,145 died.
Oct 21, 2009 | 12:05 am | Loading…
Jerome Christenson: All aboard and back to the future
"Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane ... Ain't got time to take a fast train ..." The Box Tops, 1967
Oct 14, 2009 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Jerome Christenson: While you enjoy your apple pie, I'd rather be shoveling snow
This time of year I really wish I liked apples better.
Oct 07, 2009 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Jerome Christenson: Franklin Street office no longer served Daily News needs
Well, I found my computer, but the publisher is still looking for his desk.
Sep 30, 2009 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Jerome Christenson: Fall is the best time for drought
Twenty-three days without rain - you'd think I would've noticed, but I didn't. Blame it on the season, that's all I can say.
Sep 23, 2009 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Jerome Christenson: I've seen the light, and it ain't pretty
"Let there be light!" When the Good Lord said it, that was one thing; coming from the Department of Public Works, that's quite another.
Sep 16, 2009 | 12:15 am | Loading…
JEROME CHRISTENSON: Summer is a bit of a letdown
It's been a cold summer. According to the papers, we haven't seen the like of it since 1985. The La Crosse airport is just a spit and a whistle downriver from here, and they barely averaged 68 degrees for all of June, July and August
Sep 03, 2009 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Jerome Christenson: Changing the rules on who gets into heaven
When the pastor's wife is a man, the Ladies' Aid will never be the same. Especially when the pastor isn't a woman.
Aug 26, 2009 | 12:05 am | Loading…
Jerome Christenson: Ours a world in which abuse isn’t news
It was New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan who famously observed that everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Moynihan's comment came to mind when I first read Barry Peratt's guest column, which appears on this page today. While the facts and statistics Peratt pr…
Aug 16, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
I’ve got zippo in clunker cash
Well, it doesn't look like Unka Sam's going to buy me that new car after all …
Jul 29, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
I’m a peach of a guy … no really
This time of year I don't have to be Ray Charles to have Georgia on my mind …
Jul 22, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
If we could put a man on the moon …
It might have set an all-time standard for dull TV - hour after hour of nothing more than a grainy, black-and-white image of a U.S. flag stiffly silhouetted against a stark, rocky landscape, notable only in that it was being broadcast live from the Mare Tranquillitatis - on the Moon.
Jul 15, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Jerome Christenson: Sarah Palin and clan are pretty ordinary people
I'm going to write a few nice things about Sarah Palin here - at least I intend for them to be nice things.
Jul 08, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
We got ours; now let's make sure we return the favor
Look out kids, it's a tough world out there, and it isn't getting any easier.
May 13, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
It's time for our government to do the decent thing
It used to be you had to join the Army to get a furlough, but nowadays furloughs are for civilians, too.
Apr 01, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
