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 25, 2026.

This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we explain why the more we learn about how Phase 1 of the AKLNG project is intended to work, the more concerned we become about its potential impact on Alaskans (2:16); 2) we explain how some attempt to use the “federal income tax” argument to deflect attention from the economic impact on Alaska families of PFD cuts (18:20), and 3) we discuss how, just as the effort to inject more fiscal responsibility into the K-12 process at the local level is making some headway, the legislature steps in to undercut it (40:04).

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.