It took several months of educating and vote wrangling, but President Joe Biden signed the Alaska’s congressional delegation’s legislation on May 24 to salvage the latter half of this year’s cruise ship season, in Southeast, at least.
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This weekâs changes in the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionâs requirements for resuming cruise ship operations drew positive reviews from three Alaskans involved with the cruise industry.
Lalanya Downs, senior director with Cruise Lines International Association Alaska wrote in an email to the Daily News that the CDC news is âencouraging,â and Ward Cove Dock Group President John Binkley said in an interview that he was âvery excitedâ about the CDCâs new guidelines.
Ketchikan Visitors Bureau President and CEO Patti Mackey said in an interview Friday with the Daily News that she is âcautiously optimisticâ about the new guidelines.
JUNEAU (AP) â Some Juneau-area residents have filed paperwork seeking to qualify for the local ballot proposed limits on cruise ships in Alaska s capital city.
The proposed measures submitted Monday would ban large cruise ships at certain times and over a specific size from Juneau.
Filing paperwork is the first step in the ballot process. The city clerk has until May 3 to certify or deny the paperwork.
If supporters are allowed to go forward, they would need to collect signatures from nearly 3,000 registered Juneau voters for each of the three measures to qualify the questions for the Oct. 5 municipal election.
The effort comes as state and local officials, including Gov. Mike Dunleavy and tourism leaders, are pushing to bring cruise ships back to the state after COVID-19 restrictions last year kept the large boats away and hit hard the economy of southeast Alaska, which relies heavily on tourism.
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Some Juneau-area residents have filed paperwork seeking to qualify for the local ballot proposed limits on cruise ships in Alaska’s capital city.
The proposed measures submitted Monday would ban large cruise ships at certain times and over a specific size from Juneau.
Filing paperwork is the first step in the ballot process. The city clerk has until May 3 to certify or deny the paperwork.
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If supporters are allowed to go forward, they would need to collect signatures from nearly 3,000 registered Juneau voters for each of the three measures to qualify the questions for the Oct. 5 municipal election.