Chicago fishing: It's all going, even the cicadas, as befits May
As befits May, all forms of fishing are going and so are the cicadas to lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.
Source: suntimes.com
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First woman chairs Chicago fishing advisory committee
Stacey Greene-Fenlon became the first woman and first person not connected to Chicago government to chair the Chicago fishing advisory committee on Thursday.
Source: suntimes.com
Senate committee postpones vote on tenure bill after hours of testimony
The House Committee on Education heard over three hours of testimony Wednesday on a bill that would change Indiana’s tenure rules and put trustees appointed by the legislature on university boards. Senate Bill 202 authored by Sen. Spencer Deery of Lafayette allows trustees to revoke tenure to fac
Source: indianapublicradio.org
Fengshui in the Qing Dynasty courtroom
MIT historian Tristan Brown’s new book, “Laws of the Land,” looks at the role of fengshui in China’s civic and legal realms.
Source: mit.edu
A World Trimmed with Fur
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers. Historians of China have described this process in stark terms: pristine borderlands became breadbaskets. Yet Manchu and Mongolian archives reveal a different story.
Source: chinafile.com