7. Grant Jackson’s favorite drive-thru zoo closed for good, after Harmony Park Safari says they are out of business. There was a recorded message received if you call the number for the zoo, “After 30 years, we will be permanently closing our gates. From this day forward, we are permanently closed.”
6. Alabama baseball already fired their head coach Brad Bohannon last week after a sportsbook’s surveillance video showed a person placing suspicious bets against the Crimson Tide showed were in communications with him. NCAA policy says coaches can not be doing this, obviously, but now the spread of sports gambling is going to make these moments a more common occurrence.
5. State Auditor Andrew Sorrell says the Legislature’s timidity on “Environmental, Social, and Governance” (ESG) investing is confounding, “The Republican base knows what ESG is … the name ID of ESG is increasing. And people don’t want this, they don’t want ESG invading our financial institutions in the state.”
4. When Title 42 falls, everyone knows even more illegal immigrants are coming, Alabama will not be spared. State Sen. Lance Bell (R-Pell City) recently visited the border and noted, “These people, when they come across, they’re coming into Alabama. They’re coming into Mississippi, Georgia, and some are staying here and some are continuing to go up north … they’re traveling everywhere.”
3. A police officer was called for a person who was asleep and intoxicated at a red light and, when a Midfield police officer arrived, he spoke with the driver before the driver jumped back in his car and drove off dragging the officer. Calls of “officer down” drew multiple agencies to the scene where the officer stopped and held the man, who is still jailed. The officer went to the emergency room and was released.
2. A particularly bloody weekend with media attention centering on a shooting and ramming of a bus stop in Texas has demands for gun control and the suggestion of a Hispanic shooter at an outdoor mall with white supremacist leanings. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants a focus on mental health.
1. Alabama Democrats charged a “poll tax” to get into their latest meeting where the leadership questionably dismantled the national party’s coalition of identity groups to focus on the black power structure. Even the dumbest people in Alabama politics know that Alabama Democrats are a mess, aldotcom’s Kyle Whitmire haughtily opines, “If this is how the Alabama Democratic Party functions, perhaps it’s better that Republicans control Alabama,” as if he has any impact on anything outside of his shrinking newsroom.
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Dale Jackson is a contributing writer to 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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