Dennis Watson wasn’t about to sugarcoat the dire financial status of the Alaska Marine Highway System.
“The Legislature has painted a target on it,” the chairman of the Alaska Marine Highway System Reform Project told some 40 people gathered for the community meeting at the Cordova Center on July 11.
Funding to the Alaska Marine Highway Service, on which many landlocked or island-bound rural, coastal communities depend, is one of many line items in the budget taking a hit as the state tries to work its way out of a financial crisis.