7. The SEC has a meeting scheduled for Thursday where they will “decide whether to terminate” LSU after amending its lawsuit to spell out expulsion by a two-thirds vote, accusing officials of “lack of institutional control” over Lane Kiffin but all of this seems unlikely.
6. Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth has renewed his push to a six-lane I-65 from Tennessee to the Gulf of America after a nine-hour Labor Day drive from Orange Beach to Guntersville, writing, “When it takes me the same amount of time to drive from Orange Beach to Guntersville as it would to drive from Guntersville to Chicago, there is a problem.”
5. The RNC Chair referred to President Donald Trump as “the best showman in politics” as Republicans open the first midterm convention, saying “We are putting the president on the ballot” to lift low-turnout while defending slim House and Senate majorities, but this strategy is interesting given that his approval rating isn’t that great.
4. Gov. Kay Ivey ordered flags to half-staff as Alabama communities prepare for the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with stair climbs, memorial services, and a first-responders gala in communities across the state.
3. Three Lindsay Clancy jurors, including the foreperson, said a holdout admitted reasonable doubt then added, “But I’m still not going to say that she’s not guilty by reason of insanity,” after deliberations so loud that alternates thought they were fighting before the mistrial, but the lone hold out “had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children.”
2. Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) posted that “This WILL NOT continue” after a Montgomery Labor Day weekend left 10 people shot and one dead, he released his first gubernatorial TV ad pledging “Less taxes, more results,” grocery-tax elimination, and an audit of “every state dollar,” while 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, who will never be governor, attorney general, or U.S. Senator again, and loves crushing ice cream sandwiches is running an anti-data center ad.
1. Oil neared $100 a barrel after Iran fired missiles at a U.S. base in Jordan that officials called “ineffective,” Houthis hit Saudi energy sites, and CENTCOM said American forces have destroyed 10 Iranian tankers while rejecting claims that Navy destroyers were struck, but the long-protracted conflict continues with no end in sight.
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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.
