Daily Archives: June 21, 2016

This week (June 21, 2016) on The Michael Dukes Show …

Each Tuesday morning 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 whether those opposing PFD cuts are a “screaming minority” as one commentator (who also happens to be an Alaska Gasline Development Corporation board member) said yesterday or is something else going on (short answer, there is), and rather than resisted, is the upcoming Special Session something that should be viewed instead as an opportunity to reduce spending more. I join Michael at 16:00 into the segment.

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

A budget update …

At the request of Daniel Hamm, the Chair of the Alaska Republican Assembly, I prepared a brief update yesterday for the Assembly’s monthly meeting on where things stand on the Alaska state budget as we prepare to head into the next Special Session.

The hi-lite (if you can call it that) is the summary of where we are on the spending line. Despite claims by others, as things currently stand FY 2017 spending disappointingly looks to be headed toward the $5.3 billion mark, down only slightly from FY 2016.

With oil and gas tax credits — the third highest spending category in the FY 2017 budget — again on the agenda, the upcoming Special Session provides the legislature with yet another opportunity to drive that number lower.  Hopefully they will take it.

The update is above, or also available here.

This week (June 14, 2016) on The Michael Dukes Show …

Each Tuesday morning 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 why we don’t need to cut the #PFD to save it and the role that #AKOilCredits play in whether we can avoid it. I join Michael at 14:45 into the segment.

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