Jean Whalen
speaker
8 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Apr
Jean Whalen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The fish are really kind of taking over a lot of rivers in the Midwest and the southern U.S.
They're also getting closer to the Great Lakes.
There's a big recreation industry all around the Great Lakes where people enjoy boating and swimming and water skiing.
And if suddenly there are these flying fish everywhere making it more difficult to do those things, that could also be a knock to the tourism industry of
So the governors of Michigan and Illinois in particular have been trying to build a new barrier along a key choke point in the Illinois River.
The federal government has pledged a big pot of money under the Biden administration.
The Trump administration, though, has frozen those funds.
And so the governors of Michigan and Illinois are lobbying President Trump to release that funding so the barrier can be built and the curb can be stopped.
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