Monthly Archives: November 2016

Each Tuesday morning at 7:20 am Alaska, I join KBYR AM700‘s The Michael Dukes Show to discuss the latest in Alaska oil and fiscal issues. This week Michael and I discuss a couple of issues likely to play a prominent role in the upcoming #AKleg session. Oil credits and how they relate to efforts to cut the PFD, and Governor Walker’s efforts to enlist local governments to lobby with him on his fiscal plan.

I join Michael at 15:45 into the segment. (Note: I did not have a good phone connection this week so there are some gaps in this discussion. If you are interested, stay with it, I return, until the last one at the end of the segment.)

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Each Tuesday morning at 7:20 am Alaska, I join KBYR AM700‘s The Michael Dukes Show to discuss the latest in Alaska oil and fiscal issues.  This week Michael and I discuss what the election of Donald Trump may mean for Alaska oil & gas development, and new employment numbers that show the Alaska recession is deepening.  I join Michael at 21:00 into the segment.

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Each Tuesday morning at 7:20 am Alaska, I join KBYR AM700‘s The Michael Dukes Show to discuss the latest in Alaska oil and fiscal issues. This week Michael and I discuss some of the issues expected to arise in the next #AKLeg session now that the smoke from the state election has cleared and the new House and Senate organizations have been formed; in the second segment we discuss two questions that I have for Senate President Kevin Meyer and the remainder of those that voted to cut the PFD in the last session.  I join Michael at 15:30 into the segment.

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As regular readers know, each Tuesday morning at 7:20 am Alaska, I join KBYR AM700‘s The Michael Dukes Show to discuss the latest in Alaska oil and fiscal issues. This week I also sat in for a day as guest host of Friday’s show while Michael took a well deserved break.

We turned part of the show into “Fiscal Friday,” using it as an opportunity to take a deeper dive into some of the important issues surrounding Alaska’s budget situation.  We broke the discussion into two parts.

Part 1 includes:

• An overview of the three critical steps involved in setting a budget (determining the approach, projecting revenues and setting spending)(from 1:55 to 13:40 of the podcast),
• A discussion with Rep. Lynn Gattis on what lies ahead in the coming legislative session on fiscal issues (from 14:25 to 29:25), and
• A discussion with former Senate President and Walker Transition Team Co-Head Rick Halford on the Permanent Fund, the Permanent Fund Dividend and the “other 50” of the Permanent Fund earnings stream (from 30:25 to the end).

Part 2 includes a discussion during the first part of the third hour about budgeting decisions being made at the University of Alaska, and how those relate to the state’s fiscal situation (from 04:55 to 12:45).

Links to background articles and some of the materials referenced during the discussion are available here.

Listen here or at the widget below.  For past episodes of our ongoing discussion with Michael Dukes on these issues, go here.

Each Tuesday morning at 7:20 am Alaska, I join KBYR AM700‘s The Michael Dukes Show to discuss the latest in Alaska oil and fiscal issues. This week Michael and discuss my final election thoughts — as we near the end, who are the core fiscal conservatives and who’s just posing — and my take on Charles Wohlforth’s ADN column on “Stopping oil exploration,” goo.gl/TE7wlX.  I join Michael at 15:20 into the segment.

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