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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Tuesday, November 5th. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - brought to you by 4 Wyoming Pack. 4 Wyoming Pack says, "This November, Wyoming will vote to allow residential homes to be taxed at a lower, fairer rate, even the playing field, and give families a much-needed break." 4 Wyoming Pack wants you to Vote Yes on Amendment A.

It's finally election day, and Cowboy State Daily is giving viewers an opportunity to hear discussion on the races and issues that matter to Wyomingites in real-time.

From 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. this evening, I'll be hosting a panel of political experts - and welcoming special guests to the conversation. Editor Jimmy Orr says the response to our primary election night coverage in August was so positive that it made sense to offer it in November as well.

"We had a great panel of political observers, those who have been in the political world forever. We had two… former governors on. We had the congressional delegation… Now, people have said that in Wyoming, the primary is the big election, and that's true, but there are some contested races out there that we will be covering, and we will have information in real time… we'll also be talking about Wyoming politics and what's happening here, and another All Star panel of of politicos and an all star guest list. We're really excited."

Tune in to Cowboy State Daily Dot Com at 8 p.m. tonight for live election coverage.

There's been a running feud between Secretary of State Chuck Gray and Gov. Mark Gordon, in which Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder has typically sided with Gordon on most issues. That is, until Monday.

That's when Degenfelder sharply criticized the governor for moving forward with the sale of a pristine 640-acre parcel of land in Teton County known as the Kelly Parcel directly to Grand Teton National Park for $100 million. Politics reporter Leo Wolfson has the story.

"Degenfelder has been a member of a task force dedicated to trying to find a land exchange for the Kelly parcel that would involve swapping land in a different part of Wyoming, the Powder River Basin, for mineral rights in kind of a trade off deal, rather than just selling the land to the federal government outright."

A spokesman for Governor Gordon's Office said that the board could easily take the motion to sell the Kelly Parcel at public auction off the table at Thursday's meeting, which would then allow the board to decide its next steps.

Read the full story HERE.

Wyoming's unseasonably warm weekends are officially over. Another wave of cold weather will envelop Wyoming this week, making it cold enough for overnight temperatures to dip into the single digits.

Cowboy State Daily's Andrew Rossi reports that the winter weather patterns moving into the Western U.S. are getting bigger and busier.

"I think people are still adjusting to how abrupt things seem to be. I mean, we were having daytime highs in the 70s, just like last week, and now we're getting overnight temperatures in the teens and single digits, but that's just what's happening with these weather patterns… Don Day has already called for a longer, colder, snowier winter, and we're starting to get into the weeks and the months where that really matters." While the change from unseasonably warm weeks persisted into late October, those days are over for the season. Anyone who hasn't winterized their hom