Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said he and his counterparts in 16 other states want to demand quicker federal action on preventing invasive species such as Asian carp from migrating between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said he and his counterparts in 16 other states want to demand quicker federal action on preventing invasive species such as Asian carp from migrating between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds.
A bipartisan group of Michigan lawmakers is pushing a bill that would fight Asian carp infiltration of Lake Michigan by closing the waterways linking the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.
The group is planning an announcement on the legislation later this afternoon, but it presumably involves closing the Chicago Ship and Sanitary Canal.
Rather than insert a cynical joke about Detroit here, I'll just note that any bill that has the support of D's and R's in Washington these days is something of a miracle. Read more...
Every 10 years, Illinois lawmakers bust out their markers and redraw the lines that make up the state’s legislative districts.
The process is called redistricting, and it’s guaranteed to produce some serious political strife during the year to come.
“Redistricting, to me, is the root of all evil,” says Sen. Kirk Dillard, a Hinsdale Republican running for governor. Read more...
