7. Major League Baseball’s journey to Alabama will carry the super-catchy branding of “MLB at Rickwood Field: A Tribute to the Negro Leagues.” It’s pretty fitting that this unveiling had to be moved off the field to under the bleachers.
6. In Alabama, public loitering to beg for money and solicit work on the side of the road is now illegal. Let’s see if police actually enforce it.
5. The city of Huntsville is going pretty hard at Airbnb owners for not getting business licenses and paying lodging taxes. This is being met with claims that a certain alleged law-breaking city councilman is allegedly operating an unregistered Airbnb of his own.
4. ALGOP vs. AEA fight goes on, with ALGOP Chairman John Wahl saying this is about ending the “indoctrination” of children while AEA Executive Director Amy Marlowe says her group is focused on Alabama and adds 72% of their members are “identifying as conservative Republican voters.”
3. Subpeonas coming in Space Command HQ snub. U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, is calling out Gen, James Dickinson of the Space Command, “Your refusal to abide by the Committee’s repeated requests for responsive documents and transcribed interviews can only be considered obfuscation and purposeful delay.”
2. The Moms for Liberty/Kirk Cameron/Riley Gaines event at the Madison Public Library has reportedly been canceled by the library after claiming the facility cannot hold the 300 expected people. But a recent photo showing the facility can accommodate that crowd is calling that excuse into question. Legal action has been threatened and Cameron says this is part of a strategy to deny the authors access to public spaces.
1. Former President Donald Trump pleads not guilty to charges related to the 2020 election right before he prepares to head to Alabama for the ALGOP summer dinner which should raise a ton of money and make a lot of news.
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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 and on Talk 99.5 from 10 a.m. to noon.
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