The Weekly Top 3 (9.5.2023)
Yes, the oil industry is important, but so are other things; what’s missing from the push for increased K-12 spending; and is Willow facing a breaking point?
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 September 4, 2023.
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) to provide context, we add some of the other things that should be considered when discussing the impact that the oil industry has on the Alaska economy (1:58); 2) we discuss what’s missing from yet another legislative op-ed pushing for increased K-12 spending (14:02); and 3) we discuss whether Conoco’s Willow project is, in fact, facing a breaking point (30:41).
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.