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Mon Feb 25, 2019, 07:46 AM Feb 2019

Alaska ferries freeze autumn ticket sales amid uncertain future

The Alaska Marine Highway System has stopped selling tickets past September. That’s in response to the governor’s proposed budget that would effectively shut down service later this year.

Gov. Michael Dunleavy’s official biography describes him as arriving in Alaska in 1983 looking for opportunity. His first stop was Ketchikan, the center of Southeast Alaska’s logging industry.

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“I don’t envision that anytime that there would not be a functional, robust ferry service in Southeast, the panhandle of Alaska,” Dunleavy said.

But his administration is proposing a $96 million cut that would effectively shut down the system.

Read more: https://www.ktoo.org/2019/02/21/alaska-ferries-freeze-autumn-ticket-sales-amid-uncertain-future/

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