'People' propose 'Cash back for cash'

Haines We the People, a local citizens’ advocacy group, has proposed a program aimed at intercepting an estimated $800,000 that leaves the community annually in credit card fees.

At the June 12 Haines Borough Assembly meeting, resident Nancy Berland outlined the group’s thinking behind a potential “cash back for cash” program involving local merchants and consumers.

The group hopes to call attention to, and decrease the “huge amount of money that leaves Haines annually due…