Alaska DOT is in crisis response mode — and it just got a new boss

Alaska Department of Transportation Commissioner John MacKinnon sits at an incident command meeting Monday, Dec. 1, 2018 — his first day on the job and three days after a massive earthquake wreaked havoc on roads in Anchorage and the Mat-Su Valley. (Photo by Nathaniel Herz / Alaska’s Energy Desk)
Something you probably wouldn’t do in a corporate setting: replace a big business’s chief executive when it’s in the middle of a crisis response.
But that’s pretty mu