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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Obama administration opposes closing shipping locks near Chicago to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes.

In a memo filed Tuesday, Solicitor General Elena Kagan asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a request by Michigan and several other states to order the locks closed.

Kagan said doing so would endanger public safety and disrupt the flow of cargo.

She said federal agencies are working with the states to keep Asian carp out of the lakes.

There are a lot of fish tales going around. Here is a true one that is about more than just the recently famous Asian carp.

Once upon a time, many years ago, Chicago was a cesspool.

It was so polluted in the late 1800s, it has been written, that chickens could run across the scum that formed on top of the rivers.

I don't know if I believe this because it has also been written that, instead of fish, the rivers were full of the floating carcasses of dead cats and horses, and I am not sure a chicken would go anywhere near a dead horse. But whatever. The smell and the disease were too much even for Chicagoans to bear. So they did something about it.

They stole Lake Michigan.

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