The Weekly Top 3 (11.18.2024)
What Alaskans should expect from the Trump Administration on resource development, the next Legislature will face some serious budget challenges & more about how Alaska should address outmigration
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 18, 2024.
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) we discuss what Alaskans realistically should expect from the Trump Administration on resource development (2:07), 2) we discuss the coming legislative budget cycle and, based on the current oil outlook, what legislators will be facing when they arrive in Juneau next January (20:15), and 3) we use a recent report on where Alaskans are migrating to help make our point about how to help curb it (33:45).
The segment is at the YouTube clip above. For those who prefer the audio version, it is available on our Spotify and Soundcloud pages. And for those interested, a rough draft of the transcript of each show from July 23, 2024 forward is available through our Buzzsprout page.
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I have just listened to your segment on why people are moving out of Alaska and I can see your points somewhat but I do think that you should actually try to survey the people who are leaving before you decide that their leaving means we could institute a state sales tax and have a stable PFD amount and this would keep people from leaving. I'd like to see that survey on what these people are looking for by moving BEFORE we institute some tax we think will fix our problems of out migration.