The government funds the airport, the lights, the runway like at every small village in Alaska that has an airport. It’s because local ‘kids’ broke them all run

The government funds the airport, the lights, the runway like at every small village in Alaska that has an airport. It’s because local ‘kids’ broke them all running by on quads with bats for funsies, counting on the feds or state to just replace them time after time - it costs the village nothing until it does. Rando source with lede buried in bottom paragraph but I’m sure one could find more local ones with some digging: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/the-runway-lights-failed-so-villagers-used-their-headlights-to-aid-an-airlift/ https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/the-runway-lights-...