The Weekly Top 3 (11.13.2023)
DOR Comm'r Adam Crum is misleading Alaskans; good news/bad news from the Slope & everyone's excited about new fed funding, but #WhoPays the state's share
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 November 13, 2023.
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, from 6:10–7am, for a discussion between the two of us about our three issues.
This week our top 3 issues are these: 1) first it was the Alaska House Coalition, now it’s Department of Revenue Commissioner Adam Crum who’s misleading Alaskans (2:02); 2) while the updates from North Slope projects Willow and Pikka are good, the overall outlook from the Slope needs to be tempered (16:40); and 3) there is a lot of excitement about some new federal funding, but it requires an equally large state match and no one is talking about who pays for that (34:41).
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