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 22, 2025.

This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we explain why we think the Alaska media has completely whiffed on this year’s real PFD story (2:10 ); 2) we explain why the North Slope renaissance isn’t producing the benefits for Alaskans they were led to expect (16:31 ); and 3) we discuss what the termination of the Santos/ADNOC deal likely means for Santos’ Alaska Pikka project (35:50 ).

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.