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Enter your email to subscribe to the daily Down in Alabama newsletter:As Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s hold on military promotions has worn on, pressure has built with military officials and Republican colleagues criticizing the campaign more and more loudly. Tuberville’s been demanding the Defense Department revisit a policy of reimbursing service members and families for traveling outside their state to have abortions.
Then Wednesday afternoon Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer set in motion votes on several other high-profile military promotions, telling CSPAN that “While we Democrats did not choose this fight, we are ready to end this sooner rather than later.”as the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Current chairman Mark Milley is retiring at the end of the month.The 4,000-bed specialized care men’s prison in Elmore County, when first announced, was going to cost $623 million.
According to Sports Illustrated, these campus resorts will have a hotel, a vacation club, residential condos, live-action sports and entertainment, dining, wellness and relaxation.The last time we could say that, a stamp cost 33 cents. And that fact actually would’ve meant something because people used stamps. Also at the time, Facebook didn’t exist and the governor of Alabama was a Democrat.
It’s been 23 years since Hoover found itself unranked in the Alabama Sports Writers Association poll. The streak stood at 266 consecutive weekly polls during football seasons. Last week Hoover lost to Vestavia Hills 26-7 and is 1-3 on the season. Coincidentally, the team with the second-longest streak coming into this week also fell out of the poll. Piedmont had been ranked 167 weeks in a row. Now the longest streak belongs to Fyffe with 158.
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