It is Tuesday again so here we go with some tidbits:

🎙️ Thanks to Chris Newlin (CEO, National Children’s Advocacy Center) for being our guest on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this past weekend. Grab the TRUITT NEWS RADIO podcast and listen to all the amazing guest interviews.

🎙️ Join us for TRUITT NEWS RADIO this weekend as Eddie Lumpkin (owner, Metro Trailer Leasing) and Dr. Anthony Leigh (President, Huntingdon College) join us as our guests. Show starts at 7AM on Bham’s Talk 99.5.

👷 The awesome, new, all-glass-designed, 42-story. Tour Triangle building in Paris has topped out. It will be the 3rd tallest building in town when completed, after the Eifel Tower and the Tour Montparnasse.

🎵 OCT 3 & 4: ShoalsFest at McFarland Park in Florence, AL featuring an awesome Drive-By Truckers/Jason Isbell reunion show

✈️ CONGRATS: Chattanooga Airport on getting a new United Airlines direct flight to Denver International Airport – City & County of Denver Dept of Aviation. Fantastic addition!

📅 OCT 19 & 20: ICSC Southeast Conference in Atlanta.

🎣 CONGRATS: Auburn University anglers Benjamin Travis & Carty Shoen on winning the 2026 Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship – by over a pound!

📅 JUNE 3 – 6: Miss Alabama Competition at Samford University‘s Wright Center.

❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: McDonald’s is the largest toy distributor in the world due to their kid’s Happy Meals?

🏈 CONGRATS: Nashville on being named the host city for Super Bowl LXIV in 2030.

🍸 For the drinkers out there, they just got a new order of Hat Trick Gin at the super-cool’s LeNell’s Beverage Boutique in Bham. Get it while it lasts.

🎵 “Rhinestone Cowboy” by Glen Campbell was released today in 1975.

🏀 CONGRATS: Carson Long on being named the Men’s Head Basketball Coach at Huntingdon College in Montgomery. Go Hawks!

🚀 JULY 10: Space Camp Hall of Fame Dinner at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville.

🏌‍♀️ OCT 19: Get signed up for the Birmingham CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) Golf Tournament at Bent Brook Golf Course.

📈 The Dow Jones Industrial was first published today in 1896 with 12 industrial companies and finished the day at 40.96.

☑️ Check out DoItWithTruitt.com for more great reports & info.

📅 JULY 6 – 9: Alabama Grocers Association Annual Convention, Sandestin.

☑️ My team at Truitt Insurance & Bonding Inc. is a fantastic option for your home & auto insurance. Hit me up & let’s get things started. tony@truittinsurance.com.

✅ CONGRATS: to our friend, Stephanie Hill of Bham’s Southpace Properties, on representing the owner during the recent sale of Hoover’s Lorna Town Square.

📅 AUG 26: Subcontractors Association of Alabama Birmingham Mixer

✔️ The next TRUITT NEWS BLAST is going out later this week. Be on the lookout in case it goes to your junk mail folder.

🏈 DID-YOU-KNOW: Bear Bryant, with 14, still has more Southeastern Conference Championships than anyone else?

🛑 Thanks for the read.