Look before leaping into water compact

Is Wisconsin going to race to be the first state to take the plunge and ratify a new Great Lakes management compact? It is beginning to look that way, with lawmakers in both parties seemingly anxious to get credit.

Jim Rowen, writing for WisOpinion,warns that Wisconsin should look before it leaps.

Democratic and Republican legislators are rushing to make Wisconsin one of the first states to ratify a new U.S.-Canadian management plan for the Great Lakes.

Historians, and our grandchildren, and their grandchildren, will lament it as an historic mistake.