Ferry advocates rethink management under smaller budgets

Should the Alaska Marine Highway System be managed differently? That’s a question being asked by ferry advocates as they cope with smaller budgets and reduced schedules.
Passengers disembark the ferry Malaspina in Skagway during its 50th anniversary sailing. . (File photo by Mikko Wilson/360 North)Since it began more than 50 years ago, Alaska’s ferry system has been part of the state Department of Transportation. And for the past decade or so, there’s been a Marine Transportati