GOOD NEWS: Bill Approved to Reduce Trash Coming Into Michigan:

A US House subcommittee approved a bill to regulate imports of trash from Canada and other nations. The bill is sponsored by two Michigan congressmen- Democrat John Dingell and Republican Mike Rogers. It's a first step in limiting the dumping of waste in Michigan and other states.

The bill would give states more power to limit the shipment and dumping of imported municipal waste until the Environmental Protection Agency issues regulations.

A similar bill was approved by the House last year but failed to advance in the Senate. Michigan gets about 350 truckloads of Canadian trash a day, and about four million metric tons each year.

(No jokes about the governor, please...)

Mike Rogers is the Congressman whose Lansing office was vandalized recently.