The Weekly Top 3 (3.10.2025)

The battle over #WhoPays for Alaska spending, the push by the Senate Majority (& Minority) to raid the Permanent Fund corpus & the #AKLNG project always looks great until you look at the economics

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 March 10, 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 review a recent, balanced look by the Alaska Beacon’s James Brooks at Alaska’s budget situation and the battle over #WhoPays (2:03); 2) we discuss the full on raid on the Permanent Fund corpus by the Senate Majority and how it’s being fueled by a poorly invested Permanent Fund (17:56); and 3) we explain how the #AKLNG project always looks great to newcomers … until they start looking under the hood at the economics (38:35).

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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