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 July 21, 2025.

This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we discuss the significant state revenue downside of Conoco’s — and others’ — new exploration programs (2:07 ), 2) we explain, contrary to the hope of some, why the gas pipeline is not a “fix” to Alaska’s broken financial foundation (17:37 ), and 3) we discuss how the OBBA may make state level K-12 funding issues even more complicated (37:57 ).

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.