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7 Things: Trump winning PR battle; driving rules unlikely over racial rules; and more …

7. An election security bill passed by the Alabama Senate would forbid the state from connecting voting machines to the internet and requires the use of paper ballots.

6. Four kids get sick in a Birmingham City Schools after ingesting edibles, if this keeps up you will see a push to ban these products grow.

5. First Lady, and giant fool, Jill Biden gets embarrassed by two college basketball players and a coach after she suggests inviting losers to the White House. The championship-winning LSU Tigers appear to be offended by the losers’ invite, the losers won’t go, and the losers’ coach says Biden should come to them.

4. The family of slain Huntsville Police Officer Garrett Crumbley is joining the fight to forbid violent offenders from being released back onto the street, saying, “(t)he system failed him.”

3. Alabama State Rep. Danny Garrett (R-Trussville) files the House bill to start the process end the sales tax on groceries and that momentum is growing.

2. The day after a bill meant to criminalize texting and driving slowed down, a bill that would make smoking and driving illegal if you have kids in your car may face a speed bump, too. This bill may fail for the same reason, concern over how it is enforced and with whom.

1. Former President Donald Trump may have been arraigned and spent a few moments in court, but his political campaign gained a ton of free airtime and raised millions of dollars off a mugshot t-shirt.

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Dale Jackson is a contributing writer to 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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