{"id":13803,"date":"2017-03-22T15:11:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T22:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-editorial-eas-is-essential\/"},"modified":"2017-03-22T15:11:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T22:11:35","slug":"alaska-editorial-eas-is-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/alaska-editorial-eas-is-essential\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Editorial: EAS is essential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"neFMT neFMT_Subhead\">This editorial first appeared in the Ketchikan Daily News:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"neFMT neFMT_Body_rr\">We might want to rethink this one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"neFMT neFMT_Body_rr\">President Trump proposes saving $175 million by eliminating Essential Air Service funds that pay for air transportation into rural communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"neFMT neFMT_Body_rr\">In Alaska\u2019s case, this would affect Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Gustavus, Cordova and Yakutat. Southeast residents fondly refer to this daily service by Alaska Airlines as the \u201cmilk run.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"neFMT neFMT_Body_rr\">Alaska Airlines receives $7.93 million to provide the run. It\u2019s subsidized because the communities north of Ketchikan wouldn\u2019t receive airline service without it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"neFMT neFMT_Body_rr\">The alternative for the milk run\u2019s island communities is various small air charter operators or the Alaska Marine Highway System. No roads connect the communities, unlike in rural Lower 48, where residents can drive to the next town, even if it is 200 or 300 miles off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"neFMT neFMT_Body_rr\">Alaska\u2019s congressional delegation has lined up against eliminating EAS funds. Congressman Don Young took it casually: This \u201cisn\u2019t going anywhere.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"neFMT neFMT_Body_rr\">Indeed. This item needs to be reconsidered for its effect on Alaskans.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This editorial first appeared in the Ketchikan Daily <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/\">News<\/a>: We might want to rethink this one. President Trump proposes saving $175 million by eliminating Essential Air Service funds that pay for air transportation into rural communities. In Alaska\u2019s case, this would affect Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Gustavus, Cordova and Yakutat. Southeast residents fondly refer to this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-13803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13803"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}