7. The number of state inmates housed in Alabama county jails for 30 days or longer quadrupled from 205 in October 2025 to 834 in October 2026, with the overall state inmate population in county jails rising from 531 to 1,229, as Association of County Commissions of Alabama Executive Director Sonny Brasfield said, “For more than a year, the department had remained fairly current with the Supreme Court order. But in the last few months, things have escalated at an alarming rate.”
6. U.S. Attorney Phil Williams vowed federal prison for Birmingham and Hoover thugs and shooters amid ongoing violent crime concerns in the area, “Those who think that they can rule our streets and impact our lives with violence have another thing coming.”
5. Calera Mayor Kenny Dale Cost resigned Monday after an incident at his home led to public backlash, with the city council passing a resolution condemning his “racially insensitive” remarks, but but what he said has not been made public.
4. The United States carried out limited and defensive strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, US officials told CBS, in response to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps firing on a US aircraft, as Iranian state media reported explosions on the island, while President Donald Trump said he was in “no rush” to ramp up strikes, adding, “We crippled them financially,” and “They have no money, no gasoline and their people are getting very tired of it.”
3. Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball shifted Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District from Toss Up to Leans Democratic on the eve of the election, giving U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Mobile) a slight edge over State Rep. Rhett Marques (R-Enterprise), despite the legislature redrawing the district to favor Republicans, where President Donald Trump would have carried it by about 14 points in 2024.
2. Doug Jones, a petty wannabe tyrant, 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, loves crushing ice cream sandwiches, and is definitely maybe a furry, accepted a $20,000 donation from the deceptively-named “Democratic Education Action Network Alabama”, an out-of-state anti-school choice PAC, amid his promises to gut the CHOOSE Act by preventing new students from accessing private school funding while allowing current participants to continue, as he has said, “It is a drain act. It is draining public education dollars, taxpayer dollars, into private schools.”
1. Polls are now open (here are the right answers), Lieutenant Governor Will Ainsworth predicted a “strong night” for Alabama Republicans with no blue wave in the state, saying, “I think Republicans are going to do fine in our state,” while citing the grocery tax reduction, school choice, and other conservative achievements, and forecasting that State Rep. Rhett Marques (R-Enterprise) would narrowly win the 2nd Congressional District, though he expected Democrats to take the U.S. Senate nationally 51-49 because “they’re the ones that are angry and mad right now, and that normally generates more turnout.”
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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.
