A projection when the Barrow high school was being built said the first several decades worth of students could each be given a check for a cool million dollars instead of building it... and saved money...
I suspect if a person were to put a pencil to paper presently, and work from the outlying areas to the inlying, that one would discover that there isn't much Alaska can afford, right now especially, except, perhaps, for a few hotel housekeepers and a few cab drivers. (Have to support Ted Stevens/ AIA since that is kind of the major reason Anchorage exists; I reckon international traffic might pay for the lights for a while.)
