7. Alabama economic and real estate report
- A report released by the Alabama Association of REALTORS says fundamentals of Alabama’s real estate market remained strong in 2022 despite increasing challenges posed by interest rate hikes, increased inflation, and economic uncertainty.
- The report notes the state’s economy has continued to position Alabama to “capitalize on increasing job growth, low unemployment, and an influx of people moving to our state in search of economic opportunity and a higher quality of life.” While foreclosures slowly ticked up, the rate is still below the national average.
6. Florida teachers hiding books
- A new poll shows that Alabama GOP voters broadly support school choice, but if voters needed more reason, teachers and education leaders in Florida are giving them plenty.
- Because they are no longer allowed to show kids pornography and divisive concepts, multiple school districts in the state have told their teachers to hide or cover all their books. Now children are asked to write letters begging their books not be taken away.
5. Trump campaign sabotage
- President Donald Trump is apparently feeling the pressure of some recent polling, including some Alabama polling, that shows him losing a primary in head-to-head battles with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Trump has taken to his Truth Social site to call DeSantis a “RINO GLOBALIST,” saying he is not loyal and sharing messages from people who are claiming they will physically fight for him in 2024. Trump actually voted for DeSantis, so don’t expect this to make sense.
- Knowing that the more Republicans in the race, the better it is for him, he urged his own U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley to run for president, “Nikki has to follow her heart, not her honor. She should definitely run!”
4. Tyre Nichols funeral becomes a circus
- Another funeral has turned into a despicable political rally as Vice President Kamala Harris and Reverend Al Sharpton took to the stage to use a death as an avenue to shamelessly insult their political enemies.
- Sharpton baselessly argued that the five Black officers were racist, “If that man had been white, you wouldn’t have beaten him like that.” Later he suggested the officers, who were all fired and charged with murder, face no accountability. Kamala Harris argued for police reform including the end to no-knock warrants, which had nothing to do with the death of Nichols. She also yammered about safety, “Was he not also entitled to the right to be safe? So when we talk about public safety, let us understand what it means in its truest form. Tyre Nichols should have been safe.”
3. Britt lands powerful committee
- Alabama’s U.S. House members have secured chairs and memberships on very important committees in the House of Representatives. Now U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) announced she will serve on the powerful Appropriations Committee. Britt will follow her former boss, former Senator Richard Shelby in that role as well as the newly assigned Rules and Administration and the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs committees.
- Britt says she will be a reasonable member, “I am going to be a voice for restoring fiscal sanity in our country by spending hard-earned taxpayer money responsibly and responsively. We need to get back to regular order and end the wasteful spending that’s poured fuel on the inflationary fire that is devastating Americans in every corner of our country.”
2. Bill to delay mass early prisoner release
- Approximately 400 prisoners could have been released into the public early, but Attorney General Steve Marshall worked to knock that number down to less than 100 over the failure of the Department of Corrections’ to notify victims properly. Marshall wants the practice to end completely.
- One lawmaker, State Sen. Chris Elliott (R-Josephine) wants to push the release back to 2030, rendering the whole process pointless. Elliott says his reasoning is pretty simple, “My goal with the legislation is really to give my colleagues an opportunity to press the pause button, delay the implementation of this and keep any folks from getting released early in the future.” The intention of the current law was to release inmates who were nearing the end of their sentences slightly early to alleviate stress on the system.
1. Different rules for Biden
- In news that will shock no one, it is now alleged that the all-powerful National Archives might be handling the classified document issues regarding former President Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden differently. This all comes on the day where another Biden property was searched by the FBI.
- House Oversight Chairman U.S. Representative James Comer (R-Ky.) alleges, that the Department of Justice directed the general counsel for the National Archives they were unable to speak about the Biden documents before the committee. When it came to Trump, as Comer puts it, the National Archive’s website tells a different story, “there’s pages and pages of press releases and information about the FBI’s raid into Mar-a-Lago and Donald Trump’s possession of classified documents, but there’s nothing on the website about Joe Biden.”
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