7. Huntsville Botanical Garden’s 30-year Galaxy of Lights display, featuring a 1.5-mile choreographed trail with music and more wants to be No. 1 on USA Today‘s best botanical light shows list, a prestigious list with many important winners, including the 1941 botanical light show champions of Opp, Ala.,show (known as “The Oppossible Dream”), after two second-place finishes, and voting is open daily through Dec. 1.

6. Auburn fired head coach Hugh Freeze after losing to Kentucky, and now the search is on with Huntsville native Jon Sumrall being the “Auburn Family” choice, Penn State’s ex James Franklin, Missouri’s Eli Drinkwitz, Arizona’s Kenny Dillingham, interim coach DJ Durkin, and even long-shot candidate Clemson’s Dabo Swinney in the mix; and now that NCAA approved Jacksonville State’s hiring of high school history teacher Jeremy Pruitt maybe he can get into the fray as well.

5. The Tuscumbia City Board of Education addressed a video of an altercation between two Deshler High School football players in the locker room, by telling people to stop sharing the video, which should totally work after their previous issues.

4. Governor-elect National championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) is not clocking out as he continues to lead the push for the Sunshine Protection Act to end twice-yearly clock changes by making Daylight Savings Time permanent, citing benefits for health, safety, economy, and ending risks like crashes and depression from disruptions.

3. President Donald Trump is threatening to cut U.S. aid to Nigeria and considering military action, causing a lot of heartburn if the government fails to stop it; after a speech by Governor-elect National championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) on the genocide of over of over 62,000 Nigerian Christians by Islamic terrorists since 2000 including 7,000 murders in 2025 alone, Tuberville criticized media and Democrat silence.

2. Election Day polls, and prior polls, show Democrats preparing to sweep New Jersey and Virginia elections, with New York City’s Democrat Zohran Mamdani expected to crush former mayor and current creep Andrew Cuomo, and California’s Proposition 50 for redistricting passing sending a message about the direction of the country for the media, but if the results don’t pan out this, they will declare that the results mean nothing.

1. Alabama and the rest of the United States will see food stamp funding restored as the Trump administration will magnanimously tap emergency funds for partial November SNAP funding of $4.65 billion, covering half the $8 billion monthly cost for 42 million beneficiaries amid the government shutdown; but this kind of move could extend the shutdown, which some expected to end this week.

Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN.