For its “My District” series, NCSL talks with Idaho Sen. Ben Toews and Rep. Joe Alfieri, whose districts include Coeur d’Alene and the nearby lake.

For its “My District” series, NCSL talks with Pennsylvania Rep. Jim Haddock and Sen. Marty Flynn, whose districts include the town of Old Forge, the self-described "Pizza Capital of the World."

For its “My District” series, State Legislatures News talks with Texas Sen. José Menéndez, whose district includes the iconic Alamo historic site in San Antonio.

For its “My District” series, NCSL talks with Oregon Rep. Maxine Dexter, whose district is home to part of Portland’s annual Winter Light Festival.

NCSL talks with Sen. Ken Horn and Rep. Rodney Wakeman about Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland, the world’s largest year-round holiday store, which is located in their Michigan legislative districts.

The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn., lives in the former Lorraine Motel, where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. The site is far more than a memorial, though: It is a cultural institution whose...