Albany County

Yeah.

In Albany County, they were using the example of a home valued at about 394,000.

Taxes would go from about 2,700 down to 1,300.

It would provide relief to homeowners who, as Jordan mentioned, have seen their valuations spike after the pandemic, but it would also cut an estimated $125 million from the state budget, impacting counties' ability to pay for essential services like firefighting and hospitals.

They fell short in 2024, but came back last year with 30,000 residents signing on to support the property tax cut.

Beann has stressed that homeowners here are on a fixed income, many of them, and this past fall the state GOP has also signed on to support the measure.

And so Jordan, you were on the ground with voters in Albany County during an informational town hall meeting.

So what was that like?

Yeah.

In Albany County, they were using the example of a home valued at about 394,000.

Taxes would go from about 2,700 down to 1,300.

It would provide relief to homeowners who, as Jordan mentioned, have seen their valuations spike after the pandemic, but it would also cut an estimated $125 million from the state budget, impacting counties' ability to pay for essential services like firefighting and hospitals.

They fell short in 2024 but came back last year with 30,000 residents signing on to support the property tax cut.

Bean has stressed that homeowners here are on a fixed income, many of them, and this past fall, the state GOP has also signed on to support the measure.

And so Jordan, you were on the ground with voters in Albany County during an informational town hall meeting.

So what was that like?

The other one went the other direction.

An applicant out of Laramie, out of Albany County, wanted to go from female to male on the birth certificate.

Judge Micia Westby said yes.

The state found out about it later after they were ordered to make the change, and then the state said, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, you need to let us into this case."

So, so Pat calls the sheriff, and he...

And, uh, this is Albany County, uh, Wyoming.

Sheriff comes out.

He takes pictures, and he's like, "I don't know what to tell you, Pat.

And we'll explore later.

Daron Wyatt running for sheriff in Albany County.

He'll be on the show.

We had sh- current Sheriff Applehans on, I think, last week.

Cowboy State Daily Show, that's Adam Finnegan.

Coming up next hour we'll get with Sue Jones, she's a Carbon County Commissioner.

Daron Wyatt will be here, he's running for Sheriff of Albany County.

Jackie Dorothy, and of course the day weather forecast, all coming up next hour.

It's not like that in Laramie County.

It's not like that in Albany County.

It's not like that in Nachona County.

We're very fortunate in Campbell County, and we'll be able to weather whatever storm comes our way, except if we have another bust, and then we're really going to be up a creek, because that's what happens in this boom and bust economy, especially in Campbell County.

So a request of 10 megawatts or more, over the last five years, we've connected 200 megawatts worth of that.

So I've got two stories around that.

So we had a company in Albany, Albany County, call us up.

a little more than two years ago.

Um, okay.

Well, Lonnie, uh, cemetery crew leader there for the Parks Division, Albany County in Laramie, she's running the Green Hill Cemetery, basically, and it's not so much the hole digging, uh, that's the drudgery of the job, it's keeping that grass cut.

I hear you, man.

I, [laughs] I got a, I got a, um, battery-powered push lawnmower.

Be more accurate, right? She, uh, takes care...

She's a crew chief, the crew boss of the cemetery there in Laramie.

Albany County Cemetery.

What's the name of that cemetery? Green Hill.

Sheriff Aaron Appelhans.

He's sheriffing Albany County.

He'll stop in.

With an update on all things Albany County or Albany County as some pronounce it.

Mayor Leanne Ryder, she's mayor of Cody.

We'll catch up with Park County seat Cody and see what's the deets.

I say that every time Sheriff Kozak comes on also.

He's in the county next to Sheriff Applehans.

Women make up a quarter of the state legislature, making Wyoming among the bottom 10 states in the nation for gender parity in the state house.

There are currently no majority women county commission boards in Wyoming, although Albany County recently had one.

But there's another kind of diversity even more lacking at the local level.

Despite making up nearly a third of Jackson's estimated population, a Latino has never been elected to the Jackson Town Council or Teton County Commission.

Yeah.

In Albany County, they were using the example of a home valued at about $394,000.

Taxes would go from about $2,700 down to $1,300.

It would provide relief to homeowners who, as Jordan mentioned, have seen their valuations spike after the pandemic.

Behan has stressed that homeowners here are on a fixed income, many of them.

And this past fall, the state GOP has also signed on to support the measure.

And so, Jordan, you were on the ground with voters in Albany County during an informational town hall meeting.

So what was that like?