The Weekly Top 3

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of August 29, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) we ask what would it mean exactly for Republicans to “take back the [Alaska] House” (1:57), 2) we explain why the Governor’s race is far from the cakewalk some currently predict (17:52), and 3) we ask how exactly...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of August 22, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) Michael and I discuss our take on the primary election results thus far (2:06), 2) we explain why the decision by Santos and Repsol to sanction — take the final investment decision on — Phase I of the Pikka proje...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 - our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets - for the week of August 15, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) we explain why the Walker Drygas campaign pitch that PFD cuts are "for the children" is a smokescreen (1:58), 2) we discuss the impact of the Supreme Court's decision late last week upholding the D...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 - our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets - for the week of August 8, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) we discuss what we've learned from the various state candidate interviews published this past week as a run up to next week's primary (2:05), 2) we explain why we believe under ranked choice voting its v...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of August 1, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) we focus on what the money & endorsements are telling us so far about state races in this election cycle (1:58), 2) we look at the five #akleg races we are using as a bellwether and why we have selected them (...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of July 25, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) we focus on some fiscal issues that some are already trying to move front and center for the 2023 legislative session (1:56), 2) we discuss a new report from Wood MacKenzie on what it will take to be an energy “sup...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 - our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets - for the week of July 18, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) we continue the discussion of what some recent polling tells us about the upcoming Governor's race (2:02); 2) we discuss a recent op-ed by the Governor trying to spin the FY23 budget as a "win" for A...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 - our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets - for the week of July 11, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) what a second Dunleavy term would mean (2:04); 2) what the federal government's draft supplemental EIS on Conoco's Willow project means for Alaska (17:22); and 3) why former Gov Walker's "leader...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 - our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets - for the week of July 4, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) the Governor's FY23 budget decisions and how those flow through to the 10-year plan (2:14); 2) why, even if successful, #AKLNG won't result in "massive revenues to the state," (20:32); and 3) whi...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 - our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets - for the week of June 27, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) what we are looking for in the Governor's budget announcements this week (2:01); 2) what we are on the alert for in the federal government's upcoming decision on the Willow project (16:50); and 3) we cont...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of June 20, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) Michael and I discuss the op-ed we wrote on fiscal policy and some of the reactions to it (1:57); 2) we discuss some of the common myths used to justify and rationalize continued PFD cuts (16:33); and 3) we start i...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of June 13, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) we take a look at the status of the #AKLNG project and evaluate whether, as some claim, it is “closer than ever” (2:08); 2) we look at Alaska House candidate Cliff Groh’s proposed fiscal plan and how it measures up...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of June 6, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) we take a look at new Senate candidate Doug Massey’s position on the PFD and realize he’s just another from the “Big Government, but don’t make the Top20% pay for it” side of things (2:08); 2) continuing the theme,...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 - our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets - for the week of May 30, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) we follow up on a couple of recent articles in the press by discussing what is happening with Cook Inlet gas (1:53); 2) we pick up on a piece in the Alaska Beacon to discuss where the PFD may be headed next(14:37);...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 - our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets - for the week of May 16, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) we discuss what the difference is between what the Governor should - but likely on the other hand will - do with the budgets the legislature has sent him (2:08); 2) we use a recent Twitter exchange to explain how so...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of May 16, 2022. Because of the time we spent on them, this week we only cover the first two of our Top 3 issues: 1) Michael and I discuss a series of tweets from Rep. Ivy Spohnholz that says out loud what’s been historically the silent part of the progressive position on...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 - our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets - for the week of May 9, 2022. Because of the time we spent on them, this week we only cover the first two of our Top 3 issues: 1) Michael and I discuss at length our take on the status of the budget, current through the Senate's actions on Monday (2:00); and 2) in light of what has...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of May 2, 2022. The Weekly Top 3 is a regular weekly segment on The Michael Dukes Show. The Show broadcasts on Facebook and YouTubeLive as well as via streaming audio from the Show’s website weekdays from 6–8am. I join Michael weekly in the first hour of Tuesday’s show, fr...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 - our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets - for the week of April 25, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) while some call SB199 the "cornerstone of a fiscal plan, we believe it is substantially flawed (2:05); 2) what some believe the end game of this year's legislative session is beginning to look like as we...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 - our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets - for the week of April 18, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) the pro's, con's and alternatives to a Constitutional Convention (2:12); 2) why it's fiscally irresponsible of the House to be rolling out new, permanent spending bills without first resolving a lon...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of April 11, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) we discuss where the budget stands as it passes the House and starts being worked by Senate Finance (2:02); 2) we explore an interesting interaction during the budget debate on the House floor related to a long te...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of April 4, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) we explain how, by pursuing permanent spending increases, some in the #akleg are putting the fiscal cart well in front of the horse (2:13); 2) we discuss what criteria we are using to sort through the 48 candidates...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of March 28, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) we discuss the operating budget passed by HFIN and headed to the House floor this week (2:05); 2) we use this past weekend’s ADN editorial on the same subject as a stepping off point to explain again why we contin...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of March 21, 2022. The Weekly Top 3 is a regular weekly segment on The Michael Dukes Show. The Show broadcasts on Facebook and YouTubeLive as well as via streaming audio from the Show’s website weekdays from 6–8am. I join Michael weekly in the first hour of Tuesday’s show,...

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of March 14, 2022. This week our Top 3 issues are these: 1) we discuss the Alaska Yuppie version of fiscal responsibility, as reflected in a recent Anchorage Daily News op-ed (2:05); 2) we explain why, as proposed, the Governor’s gasoline tax suspension isn’t saving Alaska...