The Weekly Top 3 (3.23.2026)

What the NPRA sale means for Alaska, the source and extent of the problems AKLNG is facing in the Legislature & the upcoming challenges the Legislature faces in finalizing the FY27 budget

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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 23, 2026.

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. I join Michael weekly in the first hour of Tuesday’s show, from 6:10–7am, for a discussion between the two of us about our three issues.

This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we examine what last week’s successful NPRA lease sale means for Alaska (1:58), 2) we discuss the source and extent of the problems the AKLNG project is facing in the Legislature (17:26), and 3) we examine the upcoming challenges the Legislature faces in finalizing the FY27 budget (38:35).

The segment is at the YouTube clip above. For those who prefer the audio version, it is available on our *Spotify and [Soundcloud](https://soundcloud.com/brad-keithley/sets/weekly-top-3) pages. And for those interested, a rough draft of the transcript of each show from July 23, 2024, forward is available through our [Buzzsprout](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1946589/) *page.

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