The Weekly Top 3 (6.24.2024)

The Newsminer editorial board is hallucinating, why Alaska's Congressional candidates should be channeling Ross Perot & another nail in the Cook Inlet gas coffin drops while waiting on the RCA to act

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 June 24, 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 explain why the Fairbanks Newsminer editorial board is hallucinating about the potential for a gas pipeline (2:10); 2) we discuss a subject on which we think Alaska’s Congressional candidates should be focusing a lot more attention this election cycle (18:07); and 3) we note another nail in the coffin of Cook Inlet production and ask again why the Regulatory Commission of Alaska (RCA) isn’t pushing the state’s Southcentral utilities to develop a realistic way forward (37:19).

The segment is at the YouTube clip above. For those who prefer the audio version, it is available on our Spotify and Soundcloud pages. Go to the Show’s Soundcloud page here for this and other complete podcasts of The Michael Dukes Show.