7. President Joe Biden and his Democrats look for a workaround on student loans and the latest scheme included refinancing all student loans down to 0% interest.
6. Convicted killer Derrol Shaw already was in Alabama prison after killing 4 people, now the prison he was being held in is under lockdown and he has been arrested after a major security incident. Shaw appeared on 2 Facebook live videos Sunday morning smoking marijuana, wearing a corrections officer’s vest, and telling a story about attacking police officers after trying to escape.
5. Judges get to see congressional maps today to decide whether or not, in their opinion, the state developed a more appropriate map that allows black voters the opportunity to be accurately represented. Conventional wisdom says that this three-judge panel will not like the maps, will draw their own, and then it will go to the Supreme Court again.
4. Reggie Ray, the chair-wielding man, has been arrested for his role in the “Riverfront Rumble.” Even though the FBI and the police say there is no racial angle, Mayor Steven Reed says it is and goes further to claim “it is a threat to the durability of our democracy.”
3. The battle of road-building continues and Gov. Kay Ivey is standing firm in her spending money on a west Alabama project despite pushes for I-65 spending by Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth and former President Donald Trump.
2. While former President Donald Trump and his GOP rivals spent time in Iowa over the weekend, the biggest news in that race was given Friday as Judge Tanya Chtkan said the former president will be able to speak his mind on the case surrounding the 2020 election BUT not on the most “sensitive” matters.
1. Special counsel has been selected, Republicans are still not happy and Democrats are having to walk a tightrope over their response. Those responses range from claiming this will clear President Joe Biden and his crackhead son to stating Biden needs to not run for re-election.
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Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN and on Talk 99.5 from 10 a.m. to noon.
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