As Alaskans, we all agree there is a real budget problem, so I’d like to understand the numbers here.  Juneau has roughly 5% of Alaska’s population and anyone that travels there including our legislative delegation/staff and anyone wanting an audience with them (i.e. tribes, governments, nonprofit organizations) must fly to reach them.  Then we pay for our legislative delegation and staffers to live in Juneau for the session (and of course any extensions to the sessions.)  Anchorage and the Mat-Su Borough, all on the road system, account for about 400,000 of our 700,000+ residents, roughly 57% of our entire state.  As an Alaskan citizen, I’d like to know in totality what it costs to send our legislators and their staff to Juneau each year, how much is spent on per diem, flights back and forth to their homes during the session, any other costs I may not be cognizant of.  Now what do we save having them in Anchorage & using technology for remote meetings?  Someone do the math, please!