Haines is among the more pessimistic towns in this year’s annual survey of businesses in Southeast communities.
About 42% of Haines’ business leaders who responded to the survey had a negative view of the town’s economic outlook and almost 20% expected they would need to cut jobs this year.
That’s not necessarily surprising to Mayor Tom Morphet who said some of the recent economic and state-level political issues have hit Haines particularly hard.
“Living here…