7. Two out of the top three NFL Draft picks were players from the Alabama Crimson Tide. With the top pick, the Carolina Panthers took QB Bryce Young and the Houston Texans choose pass rusher Will Anderson with the third pick. Florida bust QB Anthony Richardson went to the Indianapolis Colts on the fourth pick.
6. Paris Hilton and an unlikely ally, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn), have joined forces to combat childhood trauma for children abused at camps for troubled children. Hilton says she was a victim of abuse when she was younger at one of these facilities and Tuberville said the system needs more oversight, “I’ve seen some of these residential care facilities with my own eyes and I know they need reform. There’s an old saying that sunlight is the best disinfectant. We need some more sunlight on these facilities so we can put a stop to the waste, fraud, and abuse in the system.”
5. When Mason Sisk was 14, he killed his entire family in their sleep. And even though he tried to claim the murders were done by someone his deceased father owed money to, he was convicted of killing his adoptive mother Mary Sisk, his father John Sisk, and siblings Kane (6), Rorrie (4), and Colson (6 months).
4. The Biden administration is challenging Tennessee’s ban on gender mutilation for minors in court. In Alabama, Central Alabama Pride is opposing a bill that would make drag shows illegal around children, which is a weird thing to have a problem with.
3. A Pentagon review, which removes politics from the decision-making process, found that Alabama was the best choice to house Space Command Headquarters but a decision is still being held up. U.S. Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Saks), Dale Strong (R-Monrovia) and Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) have had enough.
2. The media and their Democrats still can’t seem to grasp the idea that lawmakers, parents, and voters, in general, are tired of the wokeness that has worked its way into our education system. Arguments about how they have been there for years are part of the problem and calling people racist, repeatedly, will not convince them to want racial, sexual, and gender issues brought to pre-schoolers or any other students.
1. 35 of 35 Alabama state senators support a plan pushed by Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth that will eliminate half of the sale tax on most food sold in the state of Alabama. Ainsworth says this is the biggest tax cut in history, “When enacted, our $304 million tax cut will be the largest in Alabama history, but, at the same time, it protects classroom dollars for public education.”
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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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