The Weekly Top 3 (2.17.2025)

The Senate Majority and Sen. Yundt start a much needed discussion about revenues, the Peter Pan debacle is only the tip of the Permanent Fund iceberg & why the AGDC Board is rapidly losing credibility

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 February 17, 2025.

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 the needed conversation about Alaska’s fiscal situation that the Senate Majority and Senator Yundt from the minority have started (2:08); 2) we explain why the Permanent Fund's failed investment in Peter Pan Seafoods is only the tip of the iceberg of the conversation we should be having about the Fund's management and operation (18:16); and 3) we explain why the board of the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation is rapidly losing its credibility (37:59).

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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