Bill introduced to allow communities to contribute to Marine Highway

A Southeast lawmaker wants communities to be able to contribute directly to the Alaska Marine Highway System.
A passenger on the deck of an Alaska Marine Highway ferry. (Flickr Creative Commons – supafly)Rep. Sam Kito III, a Juneau Democrat, authored House Bill 292. It had its first hearing last week in the House Transportation Committee.
He called it a simple, one-line bill that could help the financially-strapped ferry system.
“The intent is not that it goes back into a specific co