Monthly Archives: March 2016

This week (Mar 29, 2016) on The Michael Dukes Show …

Each Tuesday morning, now at  7:20 am Alaska, I join KBYR AM750‘s The Michael Dukes Show to discuss the latest in Alaska oil and fiscal issues. This week we discuss the additional spending “cuts” announced yesterday by Senate Finance, the coming House Finance debate on oil tax credits, and an important ‪op-ed on the structure of the Permanent Fund Dividend.  We also “name names” of those helping deal with the state’s fiscal situation and some not. I join Michael at 14:20 into the segment.  (Beginning with this week’s segment, the show has gone to full 15 minute talk segments to permit a deeper dive into each topic.  I will join at 7:20 am and continue up until the 8:00 am break.)

Listen here or at the widget below and for past episodes, go here.

A Way Forward on the #AKBudget: My presentation to the Alliance …

This morning I spoke to the regular, every-other Thursday breakfast meeting of the Alaska Support Industry Alliance on A Way Forward on the Alaska Budget.  The speech comes on the cusp of a dramatic next few weeks in the Legislature, as they come to grips with final state spending levels and grapple with how they are going to pay for them.  The speech summarizes my views on how those issues should be resolved.

This week (Mar 22, 2016) on The Michael Dukes Show …

Each Tuesday morning at 7:15 am Alaska I join KBYR AM750‘s The Michael Dukes Show to discuss the latest in Alaska oil and fiscal issues. This week we discuss the emerging outline of the ‪#‎AKbudget‬, but ask whether the emerging rewrite of the Governor’s oil & gas tax credit bill will blow it up?  I join Michael at 9:45 into the segment. Listen here or at the widget below and for past episodes, go here.

An ad AK4SB is running the next two days on FB, Twitter and yes, Instagram …

We don’t accept or often publish ad’s on this page, but this one is so important we decided to publish it here as a column piece:

This week (Mar 17, 2016) on The Michael Dukes Show …

Each Tuesday morning at 7:15 am Alaska I join KBYR AM750‘s The Michael Dukes Show to discuss the latest in Alaska oil and fiscal issues. This week we added a special edition on Thursday to discuss legislators who clearly are working to reduce the #AKbudget and who are getting in the way. I join Michael at 9:40 into the segment. Listen here or at the widget below and for past episodes, go here.

For those interested in more, during the week I discussed the topic for a couple of segments also as I filled in as guest host on the Tom Anderson Show.  The podcast of the show is here.  The segments focused on the #AKbudget begin at 22:00 into the show.

 

This week (Mar 8, 2016) on The Michael Dukes Show …

Each Tuesday morning at 7:15 am Alaska I join KBYR AM750‘s The Michael Dukes Show to discuss the latest in Alaska oil and fiscal issues. This week we discuss the #AKecon, how rough it may become and how options for dealing with the #AKbudget will affect it.  I join Michael at 10:00 into the segment. Listen here or at the widget below and for past episodes, go here.

This week (Mar 1, 2016) on The Michael Dukes Show …

Each Tuesday morning at 7:15 am Alaska I join KBYR AM750‘s The Michael Dukes Show to discuss the latest in Alaska oil and fiscal issues. This week we discuss whether the #AKleg House Finance Committee (HFIN) has cut enough yet from the #AKbudget (the answer is “no”), the most important chart in the current #AKbudget debate & the #AKleg debate on oil & gas tax credits.  I join Michael at 11:50 into the segment.  Listen here or at the widget below and for past episodes, go here.