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State lawmakers from Mississippi and Alabama are playing each other in softball this weekend to raise money for charity. The states' Republican governors are placing friendly bets on the outcome.

Governor Kay Ivey joined Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox on Friday, March 1, to announce their participation in the National Governors Association’s Disagree Better Initiative, a yearlong initiative to help Americans learn the skills of healthy conflict.

Alabama GOP U.S. House member Gary Palmer says he wants to be the next Speaker. UCLA’s Promise Institute assembled a list of candidates who were considered “election deniers” and “election skeptics” before the 2022 midterm election. Palmer was listed as an election skeptic, which was defined by the New York Times as someone who criticized the election, casting doubt on the outcome, but did not wholly express claims of a stolen or rigged 2020 election.

None of the Republican members of Alabama’s U.S. House delegation jumped ship during today’s historic ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy. A preliminary head count by CNN and the Los Angeles Times listed GOP House members Matt Gaetz of Florida, Andy Biggs and Eli Crane of Arizona, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Bob Good of Virginia, Matt Rosendale of Montana, Ken Buck of Colorado, and Nancy Mace of South Carolina as having voted with Democrats to remove the embattled Speaker.

Monday marks the start of the first full week since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Roe Versus Wade decision legalizing abortion. A Montgomery federal judge also just removed an injunction to a 2019 Alabama law that makes abortions a felony. The West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa provided fifty percent of the procedures in the state. The clinic says one hundred patients have already been turned away.

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