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 March 2, 2026.

This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we explain why the Legislature should use the rolling 10-year average oil price in preparing the FY27 budget, rather than whatever will come from the snapshot of the current futures market being taken this month in the midst of what’s happening in the Middle East (2:26), 2) we review two slides included in Permanent Fund Corporation advisor Callan’s presentation last week which undermine both the claim that the PFC is doing “well” compared to its peers, and that even a 4% POMV draw rate adequately protects the Permanent Fund corpus (17:35), and 3) we discuss why a distributional analysis of who pays under any given revenue approach is critical to both the legislative process and the long-term well being of both Alaska families and the Alaska economy (39:10).

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.