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7. Two big projects for Alabama taxpayers are moving forward: A new state house was approved by the Alabama Legislative Council with the Retirement System of Alabama handling the heavy lifting, and the cost of a 4,000-bed Elmore prison is north of $1 billion, a massive increase over the original projection of $623 million. 6. A federal judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump repeatedly committed fraud when misrepresented the value of his real estate holdings by as much as $3.6 billion dollars. This is all part of a $250 million civil case, where the Trump legal team argued many of t