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This week’s changes in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 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 “encouraging,” and Ward Cove Dock Group President John Binkley said in an interview that he was “very excited” about the CDC’s new guidelines. Ketchikan Visitors Bureau President and CEO Patti Mackey said in an interview Friday...

Font Size: There’s widespread agreement among Republican politicians and operatives that the GOP needs to broaden its appeal to the working class. But what’s that look like in practice? It starts with simply recognizing the challenges that ordinary Americans face. Between 1965 and 2015, the fraction of working-age men without a job more than doubled, and millions more were underemployed. Only the wealthiest fifth of Americans saw positive income growth during the Obama presidency, while the bottom four-fifths saw no growth at all. Health care spending grabbed an ever-growing share of hous...

Sunday PM (SitNews) Washington, D.C. - Friday, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) introduced the Alaska Tourism Recovery Act to alleviate the Passenger Vessel Services Act (PVSA) restrictions for cruise ships transporting passengers between the State of Washington and the State of Alaska. This legislation will allow cruise ships to sail to Alaska without requiring that they stop in Canada, as U.S. law normally would require.  Canada’s Interim Order No. 5 Respecting Passenger Vessel Restrictions Due to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ...

How would impeachment work? We asked a U.S. politics expert CBC News Hamilton3 months ago 3:11If it were to go ahead, how would the impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump work? CBC asks Brock University professor of political science Paul Hamilton.3:11

Cost Breakthrough in Department of Energy Loan Guarantees Share Article The Alternative Fuels & Chemicals Coalition (“AFCC”) worked closely with policy makers and appropriators this year to provide changes to the U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”)’s Title XVII Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program (the “Title XVII Program”), which were realized through the recent enactment of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. This bipartisan package will foster innovation across the board on a range of technologies that are critical to our energy and national security, our long-...