Articles tagged “alaska”

It's interesting to note that Alaska's short tourism season is longer than its legislative one.

Federal government earmarks? For Alaska? Impossible. We hope the ferry eventually finds a home -- somewhere -- taking visitors and locals from one dock to another.

While limited roads may make sense, over a decade of challenges from multiple political partisans don't, and it serves the forests well to finally be able to plan for the future.

The bill's supporters claim that the new law normalizes the rules by which industries play in Alaska, but the referendum the law overturns was put in place because the cruise companies refused to play by the rules.

Certain less-forward-thinking members of the Alaskan state legislature are happy to turn over the state's environmental policies to cruise lines. But all Alaska has going for it is nature, and nature needs to smell nice.

Ruedi Baur aimed to create signs with soft shading to make Vienna airport stand out to travelers, but the hard-to-read signage only confused passengers proving that utility outweighs design in busy hubs like airports.

The government quietly passed an anti-pollution program requiring all large ships to cut their fuel's sulfur content from 2.7% to 1% by August 1. The cost is estimated as an additional $19 a day -- less than lines routinely pass on as "fuel surcharges."

Spaces are still open on the yearly liberal or democratic-themed cruises that give citizens the opportunity to chat with well-known political commentators only months, or weeks, away from the election.

Alaska is angry that the EPA is forcing them to abide by a treaty before the treaty has been ratified, but in the long run its difficult to argue that the cruise industry won't be better off with pristine waters.