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 May 19, 2025.
This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we explain why this year’s PFD cut — which is the 10th in a row and the largest yet — is, like the others before it, nothing more than a bailout paid for by middle & lower-income Alaska families of the Top20%, non-residents, and the oil companies (2:18); 2) we discuss how, in its latest press release, the Permanent Fund Corporation is trying to divert attention away from its recent performance (19:40) and 3) we explain how dealing with supersized and uneconomic Alaska energy projects is like a game of whack-a-mole; just when you have one down, another pops up (38:31).
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. We join Michael weekly in the first hour of Tuesday’s show, from 6:25–7am, for a discussion between the two of us about our three issues.
