7. A Louisiana court issued a temporary restraining order allowing 33 athletes, including NFL players, to seek a fifth year of college eligibility, prompting college football staffers to warn the ruling could “open the floodgates” for more professional athletes to treat campus as a fallback option while the NCAA argues about the “destabilizing effect” on college sports.
6. Alabama State Sen. Chris Elliott (R-Josephine), who says he is a “proud MAGA supporter,” believes the new $3.2 billion Mobile River Bridge and Bayway should be named for Gulf Coast icon Jimmy Buffett rather than President Donald Trump after U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) proposed calling it the “Gateway to the Gulf of America, the Donald J. Trump Bridge,” both are wrong and it should be named for Nick Saban.
5. Alabama Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Everett Wess ridiculously compared current immigration enforcement to Ku Klux Klan tactics, saying agents “jumping out of vans and with masks on and scaring families and children” follows “the old playbook” where “they had on a mask and the hoods and would scare families and would break families apart.”
4. President Donald Trump has officially requested $951 million in the Fiscal 2027 budget to fund the full relocation of U.S. Space Command headquarters to Redstone Arsenal, a new purpose-built joint operations center on a 64-acre site, which will hopefully end Colorado’s attempt to steal the HQ.
3. The debate over flock cameras continues, with Alabama State Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) calling for “restrictions and guardrails” on the cameras and their usage and Jefferson County Sheriff candidate Jacob “JJ” Reach wants law enforcement “to obtain a search warrant” before accessing Flock license plate reader data because “convenience should not outweigh the liberty of those who have not done wrong.”
2. Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth accused Doug Jones, the cowardly caretaker former junior senator in an ill-fitting suit, who looks like he just woke up and stole his shoes from a homeless person and who will never be governor, attorney general, or U.S. Senator again, of “flat out lying” by claiming Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) would privatize the Retirement Systems of Alabama, and adding that “Dishonest Democrat Doug lacks the character to be governor.”
1. U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) is hoping to bring some reason to the Alabama data centers by rejecting both a full moratorium and putting them “on every corner,” meanwhile West Virginia has uncorked a plan directing 50% of data center revenue toward eliminating the state income tax, unions want these moratoriums stopped, and a new study found data centers caused average retail electricity rates to fall modestly from 2015 to 2024 through economies of scale.
Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN.
