7. A small North Alabama town is fighting back against a bitcoin mining center that they has “crushed so many hopes” as residents push back with one woman claiming, “A data center is not a neighbor that we were looking forward to. It’s in essence a pest, a big ugly pest; it never migrates, has no dormancy period, never sleeps, never even stops to breathe. It just consumes and screams 24/7/365 days a year without producing any measurable benefit to the quiet corner of the woods, and invades.”
6. Outgoing outspoken Huntsville City School board member Andrea Alvarez announced an doomed-to-fail lawsuit over the Choose Act as she raises funds for a legal effort challenging the school choice legislation that expands options for Alabama families.
5. A new poll finds a majority of parents want TV shows to label LGBTQAI+ content for children, U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise), who is also running for U.S. Senate, is pushing a bill that would enforce such labeling requirements on entertainment media…