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January 2025

The Friday Alaska Landmine column: This is brutal
Leg Finance's FY26 overview concludes this coming year's budget likely won't balance even using a 75/25 PFD approach. But that's just the tip of the…
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Brad Keithley
The Weekly Top 3 (1.27.2025)
Senator Dunbar asks the right question of Enstar; with the #akleg already facing a huge fiscal hole, the #AKHouMaj proposes to dig even deeper & the…
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Brad Keithley
The Friday Alaska Landmine column: The real Permanent Fund reform that’s needed
Some are pushing to reform the Permanent Fund by Constitutional amendment, but that addresses a made up issue. Here's the real problem: it's…
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Brad Keithley
The Weekly Top 3 (1.20.2025)
What LegFin's "Overview" tells us about the fiscal situation facing the #akleg this session; what the heck is Enstar doing now & the selective political…
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Brad Keithley
The Friday Alaska Landmine column: WHICH working-age Alaska families are outmigrating?
This week, we look at detailed IRS data to help identify which types of working-age Alaska families are leading the Alaska outmigration
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Brad Keithley
The Weekly Top 3 (1.13.2025)
Should the #akleg fund AGDC's "Hail Mary," where working age outmigration is occurring by income bracket & why "royalty relief" is an unnecessary…
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Brad Keithley
The Friday Alaska Landmine column: Permanent Fund "Performance"
This week, we compare the returns being generated by the Permanent Fund and the benchmarks the PFC uses against more broadly known measures like the S&P…
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Brad Keithley
The Weekly Top 3 (1.6.2025)
Dunleavy's "legacy," how we are continuing to fiddle even as we count down to the zero hour on Cook Inlet gas & rather than face budget reality, how…
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Brad Keithley
The Friday Alaska Landmine column: Here’s a significant part of the revenue problem
Digging into the Fall Revenue Sources Book explains why state royalty and production tax revenues are plunging even as overall production volumes and…
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Brad Keithley

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