7. Amtrak’s pointless and expensive passenger rail service is set to return to Mobile after City Councilman Josh Woods changed his stance, providing the needed majority vote. This agreement involves a funding and ground lease arrangement with Amtrak, allowing for two daily round trips between Mobile and New Orleans is for 3 years and Woods says the state will have to step in more after that.
6. State Sen. Merika Coleman (D-Birmingham) wrote a piece for Yellowhammer News declaring that the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission is taking too long to make medical cannabis available to patients, despite legislation passed in 2021. Issues include failing to follow statutory guidelines, technology failures, lack of transparency, ignoring initial application criteria, legal actions, and it sounds like it is time to go back to the drawing board and scrap this idea in its current form.
5. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) has launched the Metro Area Crime Suppression Team to combat violent crime in Montgomery, which includes officers from ALEA, the Alabama Attorney General’s Office, Montgomery Police Department, Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, made 49 arrests and recovered 33 guns in its first 12 days.
4. Meanwhile, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin is meeting with a rapper who is “famous” for rapping about killing people and has a bunch of dead friends from the city. Just to be clear, one of the most dangerous cities in the country is seeing a cycle of crime and death so the mayor sat down with someone who glamorizes that.
3. The Kamala Harris rebrand is not going well even though the media is going full-bore into Orwellian re-writes on her record, her time as border czar, and even funding the bail out for killers after the George Floyd riots. Montgomery-founded polling group Cygnal finding that Harris is unpopular among key voter groups, particularly Hispanics, making states like Arizona and Nevada difficult for Democrats. The Hill is reporting Harris is trailing former President Donald Trump in several swing states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
2. For some reason, historic firsts are something the media likes to promote about Kamala Harris, like when the Sacramento Bee declared Harris was the first Indian-American U.S. senator from California years before the Los Angeles Sentinel noted Kamala Harris was the first black vice president. But the history will not be stopping anytime soon as Kamala Harris historically becomes the first presidential candidate to appear on “Ru Paul’s Drag Race”… seriously, it is cringe.
1. Surprise, after days of pretending there was a chance former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama would not endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president, and news reports to that end, a 55-second video was released by her campaign shows they did a week ago. In the clip, the Obamas express their pride and commitment to supporting Harris through the election but the Obamas are the latest people to endorse Kamala Harris without mentioning a single Kamala Harris accomplishment.
