Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg closes out Alaska tour in Juneau
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated Buttigieg visited Skagway. Travel disruptions meant that portion of the scheduled trip was ca...
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated Buttigieg visited Skagway. Travel disruptions meant that portion of the scheduled trip was cancelled. After two days of hearing about how increasingly extreme weather and environmental forces are disrupting Alaska's transportation and infrastructure, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg got a first-hand sampling of it during a visit to Southeast Alaska on Wednesday that ended with a delayed stop in Juneau. Buttigieg, on the last day of his Alaska trip, made a brief media appearance on the tarmac at Juneau International Airport after exiting a small plane that came back from a tour in Haines with U.