{"id":4683,"date":"2019-03-11T21:28:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T05:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2019-03-11T21:28:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T05:28:36","slug":"stedman-sponsors-marine-pilots-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=4683","title":{"rendered":"Stedman Sponsors Marine Pilots Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the 31<sup>st<\/sup>\nAlaska State Legislature, it is important to work on all the issues.&nbsp; While certainly not drawing as much attention\nas the operating budget, extending the Board of Marine Pilots is important to\nmaritime safety and commerce.&nbsp; It is\nanother step in protecting our waters for future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am sponsoring a bill to extend the Board for eight years.\u00a0 The Board protects the safety of the public and the environment by licensing and regulating marine pilots for almost all foreign vessels and vessels over a certain size in Alaskan waters.\u00a0 Marine Pilots manage and supervise the navigation of cruise ships while they\u2019re in state waters.\u00a0 The Board\u2019s work provides a level of assurance that marine pilots are competent and able to safely pilot passenger and cargo ships throughout the waterways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am glad to have a small role in making sure our waters and vessels are kept safe by the Board of Marine Pilots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 31st Alaska State Legislature, it is important to work on all the issues.&nbsp; While certainly not drawing as much attention as the operating budget, extending the Board of Marine Pilots is important to maritime safety and commerce.&nbsp; It is another step in protecting our waters for future generations. I am sponsoring a bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4684,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions\/4684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}