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 some are pushing to expand state spending even more

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 January 6, 2025, our first of the new year.

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 examine the effort by some, rather than focus on the endless string of deficits he is leaving behind, to reshape the “Dunleavy legacy” into one of even greater government spending (2:17), 2) we explain how, as the clock continues to run down, all of the posturing and discussion around Cook Inlet gas is getting us nowhere closer to a real solution (15:58), and 3) we discuss how, rather than shrinking in the face of budget reality, the proposed spending list for the coming legislature is actually growing (35:27).

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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