The Mississippi River is like immigration--it's enormously nourishing . . . but if it floods its banks, it can become a problem. And that is what's happened here.

I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

The GOP's insoluble problem is that the multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual country they created with their open borders appears not to like the brand of dog food the party sells.

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.

I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.