7. Jacksonville State Gamecocks defeated Troy 17-13 in the Salute to Veterans Bowl, becoming the only Alabama school to win a bowl game this season while trolling rivals on X with a “1 of 1” post, but as Alabama owns a non-bowl win at Oklahoma this year, the whole thing seems kinda pathetic.
6. Alabama cities, including Tuscaloosa, Mobile, Hoover, Montgomery, and others, have sued over the Simplified Sellers Use Tax, arguing it shortchanges local revenues, while counties and smaller cities defend it and argue for the status quo, prompting legislative bills for destination taxation amid warnings of revenue chaos.
5. The University of Alabama School of Social Work’s DSW program, which hosted 2025 DEI and anti-racism presentations on topics like BIPOC men in social work and anti-racist teaching, is set to return in 2026, led by Dean Schnavia Smith Hatcher despite questions about legality.
4. The U.S. House passed a bill extending ACA subsidies for three years by 230-196, with 17 Republicans joining Democrats despite GOP leadership opposition; Alabama’s five Republicans voted against it, its two Democrats for it, amid premium hikes and enrollment surges following the government not paying for the ObamaCare premium hikes.
3. Doug Jones, the cowardly caretaker former junior senator from Great State of Alabama 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, stated Renee Good was not a terrorist but a fearful mother and citizen undeserving of death, urging investigation; Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) blamed the left for inciting violence leading to the shooting; U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) attributed it to Democrats’ toxic rhetoric creating harmful environments for officers.
2. A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and wounded a man and woman in Portland, Oregon, during a targeted vehicle stop after the driver allegedly tried to run over agents; the Venezuelan passenger was illegal and gang-affiliated, and the mayor of Portland is suggesting the Trump administration is lying.
1. The media and their Democrats’ desire to identify the officer who killed Renee Nicole Good as she was driving into him has been fulfilled as they villianize him but cast the criminal as a sympathetic 37-year-old mother of three, poet, and U.S. citizen with no criminal history, protests have continued to rage over this
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Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN.
