Wyoming
Amendment A Passes To Separate Residential Property Taxes In Wyoming
The Wyoming Legislature will have a new tool at their disposal to address rising property tax rates across the state for the 2025 session.
Constitutional Amendment A was approved by 146,300 voters on Tuesday night.
The amendment will create a separate class of taxation for residential properties in Wyoming, which will theoretically give legislators more flexibility to reduce property taxes in the state.
In total, 124,743 people either voted in opposition to the amendment or didn’t vote at all on it, which also counts as a no vote.
Opponents of the amendment expressed concern that it would actually lead to lawmakers raising tax rates in the future or raising taxes on other sectors like commercial properties to make up for lost revenues.
The amendment takes no direct action on lowering taxes and it will be up to legislators to decide how they want to proceed forward on the issue.
“Now it’s in the hands of the Legislature,” said Laurie Urbigkit, the government affairs director for Wyoming Realtors and treasurer of the 4Wyoming political action committee that supported the amendment. “It will be up to them to see what they want to do with this. That’ll be the fun.”
The 4Wyoming political action committee spent $544,047 through the end of October trying to pass the amendment.
“We did everything we could to win this,” Urbigkit said. “We didn’t leave a stone unturned, we absolutely gave it our all.”
Urbigkit said although she was proud of their efforts, she has no plans to ever run a political campaign again.
Amendment A was the only amendment proposal on this year’s ballot.
A wind advisory was issued by the National Weather Service on Sunday at 3:01 a.m. valid from 4 p.m. until Monday 4 p.m. for Wyoming and Cattaraugus counties.
The weather service adds, “Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph expected.”
“Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result,” states the weather service. “Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.”
Advance Local Weather Alerts is a service provided by United Robots, which uses machine learning to compile the latest data from the National Weather Service.
Wyoming
Drones and robot deployed in Wyoming County standoff; Man dead from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound
CASTILE, N.Y. — A tense situation unfolded on South Main Street in the Village of Castile on Friday at 4 p.m. The Wyoming County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a suicidal man armed with a handgun after a domestic incident.
Deputies established phone contact with the man, who confirmed he had a loaded handgun. Negotiations began, but during the process, the man left the home and fired a shot across South Main Street toward law enforcement.
A SWAT team was called to the scene, and negotiations continued for several hours. South Main Street was closed for nearly seven hours during the standoff.
After the man stopped communicating with authorities, drones were used and they found no activity inside. A robot was then sent in, where the man was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The name of the man has not been released.
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