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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Thursday, November 21st. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - brought to you by the Cowboy State Daily Morning Show with Jake. From 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., Monday through Friday, Cowboy State Daily's Jake Nichols takes you deeper into the stories that matter - and keeps up with the news, weather and sports in your part of Wyoming. Just tune into Cowboy State Daily Dot Com and join the conversation. The Joint Revenue Committee advanced draft legislation at its meeting on Monday that, if passed into law, would cut property taxes by 25% for single-family residential home values of $2 million or less. Cowboy State Daily's Leo Wolfson reports that the bill is almost identical to the legislation Governor Mark Gordon already vetoed earlier this year. "The bill itself reduces property taxes by 25% for home values up to 2 million, and also includes not only single family residential structures, but also now associated land as well. The interesting thing about this is that Gordon obviously vetoed this bill, but the legislature does have the numbers at this point to overturn his veto. It could have actually done So earlier this year, but the governor took so long to veto the bill that this would have required the calling of a special session to overturn the governor's veto." The committee passed the bill on an 11-3 vote on Monday. If passed into law, it would go into effect for the upcoming tax year and expire in June 2027. Read the full story HERE. For the past 14 years, eleven 240-feet high, 450,000-pound wind turbines have loomed over the landscape of northeastern Casper, once the symbol of the county's first step into green energy. Now some say they are just an eyesore. Casper resident Terry Wingerter was one of the Natrona County commissioners who approved the initial project in 2009. He told Cowboy State Daily's Dale Killingbeck that he wishes now he would have voted differently on the wind farm, which was to be operated by Chevron. "It didn't turn out the way he thought it was going to turn out. It only operated for a few years, then stopped… and he just feels like it hasn't been the asset to the county or to green energy or anything like that that he thought it was going to be… The Natrona County Attorney's Office has received a letter from Chevron stating that they are going to try and make them operational by the end of the year. Whether that happens or not is yet to be determined." State Rep. Forrest Chadwick from House District 62, which includes the wind farm, said he has not heard complaints from constituents on the issue, but believes the company needs to do something other than allow the wind turbines to sit idle in the wind. Read the full story HERE. Twelve women, including one associate coach and two former and nine current collegiate volleyball players, last week sued the Mountain West Conference, San Jose State University and others over the inclusion of a transgender member on SJSU's team. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that on Tuesday, the conference says the women manufactured their own e