Much has already been made about the Trump administration's protectionist policies and use of import tariffs and the threat of import tariffs toward a number of goals. It's new territory for many Republicans, at least publicly, as they support a White House boasting of the money the government is making off of trade.
But as long as the federal government is, to some extent, picking economic winners and losers, GOP lawmakers want more winners back home. Bloomberg News reports that Congressional Republicans are lobbying for more import duties to target the foreign competition of businesses within their states.
Bloomberg reported that more than a dozen have been pushing for new or higher tariffs. That includes Alabama's Sen. Tommy Tuberville who said the White House was open to a request for a 60% tariff on wooden cabinets.
The president said on Friday that a trade investigation into furniture imports could lead to new tariffs.
The report said that Alabama's other Senator, Katie Britt, is also among several lawmakers who are lobbying for tariffs on products that are made out of wood.
Referee's health emergency
A football official working the season opener on Friday night at Sylacauga High School collapsed during the game with an apparent heart attack, reports AL.com's Ben Thomas.
On Saturday a relative said that Joey Shelnutt was in stable condition at Grandview Medical Center and may be facing bypass surgery.
According to witnesses, when Shelnutt collapsed on the field Friday night, fellow official Lew Murphy immediately started performing CPR.
Sylacauga head coach Chris Smelley said a DJ on the sideline played "Goodness of God" as players on both sides knelt in prayer. The coach said Shelnutt was resuscitated at least twice and left the field to a standing ovation and the announcement that he was showing positive signs.
Alabama's former drummer
Reports were popping on social media over the weekend that longtime Alabama drummer Mark Herndon rejoined the band briefly during Saturday night's concert at the Orion Amphitheater in Huntsville.
Retired WHNT anchor Jerry Hayes was among many sharing photos of the reunion.
Herndon parted ways with the Fort Payne cousins a couple decades ago after being with the group since 1979. Lead singer Randy Owen has said Herndon had been a paid employee and never a full member of the band, although the drummer had been a major part of the group's imagery, appearing on album covers and the statues in Fort Payne. He was even inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame with the band in 1993.
Quoting
"It's funny how something great and just awesome, and one day you just wake up and it's just like, 'I can't, I can't do it again.' We're taking an Applebee's break now."
Singer Walker Hayes, according to Taste of Country, on the restaurant chain featured in his 2022 smash hit "Fancy Like."
That's how many PGA Tour Champions (senior tour) events Florence native Stewart Cink has won after this past weekend's victory in the Ally Challenge at Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club in Grand Blanc, Michigan.
In 1916, pediatrician and Nobel-winning bacteriologist Frederick Robbins, originally of Auburn.
In 1965, former University of Alabama and NFL linebacker Cornelius Bennett of Birmingham.