This week on Facing the Future we look at President Biden’s ambitious policy agenda with former Ambassador and New Hampshire Congressman Richard Swett. Then we go to Las Vegas with Concord Coalition Field Director Phil Smith and Jayce Farmer, professor of public policy at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, who uses Concord's Principles and Priorities budget exercise with his mid-career graduate students.

Facing The Future: Don't Keep it in Vegas

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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 November 17, 2025.

This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we discuss why revenues - where the money is supposed to come from - should be an equal part of the discussion of the Legislature's Task Force on Education Funding (2:15); 2) we explain why the Alaska fiscal policy debate sounds a lot like two kids fighting: it's your fault, no, it's your fault (19:24); and 3) we explain why the pre-session "priorities" discussions between local bodies and their legislators should be a two-way conversation, which includes a segment on "who pays" (37:51).

The Weekly Top 3 (11.17.2025)

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