7. The hottest housing market in Alabama has started to cool with new data showing that home sales down 17.7% in year-over-year in September in the Huntsville-area. The cooling already happened elsewhere, with Birmingham down 22% year-over-year in June, Mobile down 15.3% in 2022, and Montgomery seeing a 24.1% drop in the same peripd.
6. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) says the issues we are seeing on college campuses are not that much of a surprise but is actually, “manifestations of what’s been going on for many years.”
5. State Rep. John Rogers (D-Birmingham) now finds himself in a jail cell after attempting to contact a witness in his federal bribery case. His spokesperson, Carlos Chaverst (hardly a credible source) claims Rogers didn’t mean to call the witness and claims he will be released soon and questionably added, “He’s a fighter. He’s a true, upstanding man. This is not his first rodeo.”
4. Former State Senate Majority Leader Clay Scofield (R-Guntersville) resigned from the State Senate on Monday in order to take a job with the Business Council of Alabama. Fellow north Alabamian State Sen. Steve Livingston (R-Scottsboro) has been elected as the new Majority Leader.
3. House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels (D-Huntsville) says he is considering a run for Congress in the newly-drawn Second Congressional District. Daniels represents Huntsville in the House, which is far from District 2, but Daniels was born and raised in the new district and believes his experience as House Minority Leader would make him effective in Congress: “at the end of the day, people, that’s what they’re saying to me. ‘You’ve gotten things done in a Republican super-majority. You’ve been able to do it without compromising the principles of being a Democrat.’”
2. A congressman vs. congressman battle is on in the First Congressional District with U.S. Reps. Jerry Carl (R-Mobile) and Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) set to square off in a newly drawn district. After Moore announced his intentions to run for the seat, pleasing many Democrats, Carl said, “Bring it on!”
1. U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) continues his hold on military promotions and appointments, but now it is now being alleged that his holds are causing heart attacks amongst America’s military leaders. Gen. Eric M. Smith, the Marine Corps commandant, had a heart attack while jogging, the media and their Democrats are attributing this directly to the holds Tuberville has on promotions and appointments even U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has acknowledged he could promote these people.
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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 11 a.m.
