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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Wyoming state senator proposes eliminating property taxes
CHEYENNE, Wyoming () — It's been a busy week for the . They spent hours listening to dozens of testimonies from county assessors to homeowners alike; many addressed the confusion and issues surrounding existing property tax laws, including three newly implemented tax breaks. During one of the meetings, Sen. Bob Ide (R-Casper) proposed getting rid of property taxes altogether. 'It's not fair. It's the wrong system,' Sen. Ide said while discussing the hidden costs Americans pay for lawmakers' decisions in Washington D.C. However, that isn't the only system he said needs to see change. 'We've got caps, we've got refunds, we've got sunsets, we've got primary residences, we've got minimum eight months, we've got camas system, we've got business and personal property, we've got pollution control, we've got fire control exemptions,' stated Ide to highlight the complexities of the Wyoming property tax system. 'For the common person to understand what their property taxes are you'd have to hire teachers to bring them in there,' Ide added. Brigham City Peach Days vendors now free to sell beverages, Coca-Cola partnership is ended For Crook County Assessor Dan Thomas, confusion surrounding property taxes is all too common. He told ABC4 that one of the biggest things that needs to happen is the dissemination of information to property owners 'to understand the entire process and understand that they're not singled out, and how everybody else has the same valuation method.' Part of the confusion likely comes from the different types of tax breaks. Three of those are new this year. One of the new laws provides a tax break on single-family homes based on their fair market value of up to one million dollars. Another gives a tax break to people over 65 who've paid tax in Wyoming for at least 25 years. However, it expires in 2025. The third caps year-to-year residential property tax increases at . This is in conjunction with a law that went into effect last year capping property tax increases at four percent for residences. All three of the laws have additional requirements not listed in this article. During one of the committee meetings, Sen. Ide offered a solution. He proposed to draft a bill 'to eliminate, repeal, section 15' of the Wyoming Constitution in order to get rid of property taxes. 'It should be up to the legislature to look at a consumption tax, a sales tax,' He added. 'It's the only way we're going to muck out all of this layered minutia of property tax.' Meals on Wheels needs volunteers to help feed Davis County seniors Sen. Ide's proposal passed the committee. However, not all legislatures voted in favor. 'Consumption taxes are regressive,' stated Sen. Case Cale R-Lander. 'They hit poor people harder because they spend more of their income.' Cale suggested studying the effects of implementing a consumption tax before drafting a bill to amend the constitution. 'Property taxes have been a basis of local government taxation for well more than 100 years,' he added. 'They have their wrinkles, but we've done a pretty good job at implementing them.' Regardless of what direction lawmakers decide to go regarding property taxes, making any changes to the tax code is far from an easy task. 'When it comes to tax reformation there's always some question as to why or how we are going to end up with a fair and equitable system to keep taxation equal and equitable throughout the whole state,' explained Thomas. Thomas told ABC4 that those who are confused about their property taxes can reach out to their county assessor. He said the assessor can help explain and break down the tax laws that are already in place. Chrysler at 100: Plans for a bold comeback Wyoming state senator proposes eliminating property taxes More heavy rain, rumbles for southern & central Utah Thursday evening MAP: Boil water advisory issued for some WaterPro customers in Draper Dillon Jones enjoying ride to the NBA Finals Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
News.com.au
24-04-2025
- News.com.au
Apple employee reveals one thing you should stop doing with your iPhone
You wouldn't want to trigger a battery app-ocalypse. Closing open iPhone apps might seem like a sure-fire way to save juice, but this measure can actually have the opposite effect, according to Apple employees. In a TikTok video with nearly one million views, a UK Apple customer said he had his 'mind blown' after learning that this digital detox method can paradoxically drain one's device. 'Every time you close your apps, it uses data and battery to open them up again,' the TikTok user — who goes by @fordylipsync — recalled in the clip. 'How am I only just finding this out?' The content creator said the topic came up while he was taking his device to the Apple store to have it repaired. 'A kind man there fixed it – a technician guy, brilliant,' the man recalled. 'I was closing all my apps down, he went 'don't close your apps.'' When the TikTokker asked the employee why, the iPhone surgeon explained that it uses more 'power' and 'data' to open and close background apps than it does to leave them alone. Instead, the technician recommended that he simply keep them suspended in the background, which simply freezes the applications in place like a power save mode. The Brit said that this advice ran counter to what he'd heard from countless iPhone users, who urged him to always close his apps when not in use. In fact, said Apple employee even said users can 'leave hundreds' of apps open without an issue. 'People think they're doing stuff in the background, they're not, they're just sitting there. They freeze. Don't close them,' exclaimed the social media user. This advice might seem counterintuitive, but many tech-sperts have corroborated this little-known fact. 'Closing iPhone apps is both cathartic and instinctively feels like the right thing to do if your battery's in the red,' wrote TechRadar contributor James Ide. 'But it doesn't actually help your battery life, RAM (random-access memory) or CPU (central processing unit), and opening and reopening apps could even have a negative impact.' Ide added that 'iOS has long been designed to make sure background apps barely touch your iPhone's RAM or CPU. He even cited Apple's own guidance on closing apps, which states that 'you should only close an app if it's unresponsive.' In 2016, Craig Federighi, Apple's Senior vice president of Software Engineering, dispelled the app closure myth while responding to an email query from a user, TechRadar reported. The Apple fan inquired, 'Do you quit your iOS multi-tasking apps frequently and is this necessary for battery life?' Federighi replied, 'No and no.'
New York Post
24-04-2025
- New York Post
No need to close your iPhone apps — Apple employee reveals the surprising reason why you shouldn't
You wouldn't want to trigger a battery app-ocalypse. Closing open iPhone apps might seem like a surefire way to save juice, but this measure can actually have the opposite effect, according to Apple employees. In a TikTok video with nearly one million views, a UK Apple customer said he had his 'mind blown' after learning that this digital detox method can paradoxically drain one's device. 'Every time you close your apps, it uses data and battery to open them up again,' the TikTok user — who goes by @fordylipsync — recalled in the clip. 'How am I only just finding this out?' 3 'People think they're doing stuff in the background, they're not, they're just sitting there. They freeze. Don't close them,' exclaimed the social media user. TikTok / @fordylipsync The content creator said the topic came up while he was taking his device to the Apple store to have it repaired. 'A kind man there fixed it – a technician guy, brilliant,' the man recalled. 'I was closing all my apps down, he went 'don't close your apps.'' When the TikTokker asked the employee why, the iPhone surgeon explained that it uses more 'power' and 'data' to open and close background apps than it does to leave them alone. Instead, the technician recommended that he simply keep them suspended in the background, which simply freezes the applications in place like a power save mode. 3 Swiping away background apps can actually drain one's battery. The Brit said that this advice ran counter to what he'd heard from countless iPhone users, who urged him to always close his apps when not in use. In fact, said Apple employee even said users can 'leave hundreds' of apps open without an issue. 'People think they're doing stuff in the background, they're not, they're just sitting there. They freeze. Don't close them,' exclaimed the social media user. 3 The Apple employee (not pictured) claimed that open apps freeze when not in use. Bloomberg via Getty Images This advice might seem counterintuitive, but many tech-sperts have corroborated this little-known fact. 'Closing iPhone apps is both cathartic and instinctively feels like the right thing to do if your battery's in the red,' wrote TechRadar contributor James Ide. 'But it doesn't actually help your battery life, RAM (random-access memory) or CPU (central processing unit), and opening and reopening apps could even have a negative impact.' Ide added that 'iOS has long been designed to make sure background apps barely touch your iPhone's RAM or CPU. He even cited Apple's own guidance on closing apps, which states that 'you should only close an app if it's unresponsive.' In 2016, Craig Federighi, Apple's Senior vice president of Software Engineering, dispelled the app closure myth while responding to an email query from a user, TechRadar reported. The Apple fan inquired, 'Do you quit your iOS multitasking apps frequently and is this necessary for battery life?' Federighi replied, 'No and no.'
New York Times
31-03-2025
- Automotive
- New York Times
Liam Lawson's swift Red Bull F1 demotion joins list of sport's most cutthroat decisions
Liam Lawson made clear when he entered Formula One that he was there to win, not to make friends. His quick rise from replacing popular Australian Daniel Ricciardo in the Racing Bulls car to partnering four-time world champion Max Verstappen at Red Bull this year generated plenty of anticipation for his potential at the team. Advertisement Just two grands prix into the 2025 season, however, Lawson found out just how ruthless sport at the highest level can be. On Thursday, after several days of speculation, it was announced he was being sent back to the Racing Bulls — Red Bull's second team — with Yuki Tsunoda heading in the opposite direction. There is, of course, a duty of care element at hand, and Lawson should not be ridiculed for being promoted to the Red Bull drive before he was ready. That was ultimately the team's choice — and why would the New Zealander turn down that opportunity? But Lawson's demotion, whether it is the right or wrong decision so early in a season, will be long remembered as one of the swiftest and most unsentimental decisions in the sporting world. The 23-year-old is not alone, though. He now joins a long list of professional athletes and coaches who will think they should have been given more time. Formula One is as cutthroat as it comes, and Lawson is not the only driver to lose his seat in it after just two races. Ferrari, for example, replaced Luca Badoer with Giancarlo Fisichella in the 2009 season before his third grands prix. In Badoer's defence, he had not been Ferrari's first choice to replace the injured Felipe Massa — the retired Michael Schumacher was, but a neck problem ruled him out — and he hadn't raced in F1 since 1999. Another brutal episode in the sport was when Yuji Ide lasted only four races before Super Aguri demoted him in the 2006 season. Ide, then a 31-year-old rookie, was part of an all-Japanese line-up alongside Takuma Sato but failed to finish his first two races, in Bahrain and Malaysia. He then finished 13th in Australia before causing a first-lap crash with Christijan Albers in Imola, prompting Aguri Suzuki, a former F1 driver and Super Aguri's founder, to reportedly tell F1 Racing Magazine that Ide 'didn't know how to drive an F1 car'. Ide was dropped following the Imola episode and didn't race in F1 again. Ruthless decisions are not exclusive to F1, though. Crystal Palace gave Dutch manager Frank de Boer a three-year contract in June 2017, only to sack him 10 weeks later after five games, the Premier League side having lost their opening four matches of the season and failed to score a goal. De Boer spent 450 minutes of actual game time in the Palace dugout, making his tenure at Selhurst Park the shortest reign in the Premier League era in terms of matches. Advertisement Certainly more memorable was the English Football Association's (FA) decision to part ways with Sam Allardyce after he had managed just one game — a 1-0 win over Slovakia — and spent only 67 days in charge of England's men's team. His exit followed an investigation by two undercover reporters at English newspaper the Daily Telegraph, which alleged that Allardyce had offered advice to circumvent the FA's transfer rules, with the newspaper also alleging he used his status as England manager to negotiate a £400,000 fee ($517, 640 at current conversion rates). An FA statement described Allardyce's conduct as 'inappropriate', with the then 61-year-old offering a 'sincere and wholehearted apology' for his actions. Greg Clark, the FA's chairman at the time, told the BBC: 'We agreed his position was untenable and he has left by mutual consent. We didn't have to sack him.' In the NFL, Urban Meyer was sacked by the Jacksonville Jaguars after only 13 games as the franchise's head coach during the 2021 season. The Athletic previously detailed Meyer's disastrous year in Florida, which saw him leave having won just twice while losing 11 times. Meyer had won three national titles as a head coach at the college level between 2006 and 2014 but, talking on the Don't @ Me podcast in January 2022, described his time at the Jaguars as 'the worst experience I've had in my professional lifetime'. The NBA's Los Angeles Lakers gave Mike Brown short shrift when it came to trusting him to replace legendary coach Phil Jackson at the end of the 2011 season. Brown was given a three-year contract, a sign of the franchise's faith in his ability to take the star-studded team that included Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol to new heights. Like Red Bull's decision to promote Lawson, Brown's appointment didn't work. Instead of getting off to a convincing start, he lost four of his first five games, prompting the Lakers to quickly decide to sack him and turn to Mike D'Antoni. Advertisement In tennis, Emma Raducanu, Britain's former U.S. Open champion, parted company with her latest coach, Vladimir Platenik, after working together for just one match, her management team announcing the news on March 19. Sticking with ruthless tennis decisions, in November's Davis Cup quarter-final against Australia, Team USA captain Bob Bryan, with the tie 1-1, decided to switch the Olympic men's doubles silver medalists Rajeev Ram and Austin Krajicek for singles players Ben Shelton and Tommy Paul. The decision backfired as Team USA lost that final match in straight sets, although Bryan insisted in the aftermath that he 'wouldn't change a thing'. Simon Kerrigan's career as an England cricketer was a memorably short one. A left-arm bowler, he made his international debut against Australia in the fifth Ashes Test at The Oval in London in 2013. In the first innings, he conceded 53 runs from his 48 balls, with 28 coming from his opening 12 deliveries as batter Shane Watson hit him to all parts of the ground. Kerrigan was 24 and highly rated, but never featured for England again. His career was never quite the same as he was released by his county-level team, Lancashire, in 2018, though he did show great perseverance and return to the professional ranks in 2020 with Northamptonshire. It was another brutal demonstration of an athlete not being at the level required to compete at the highest level. At least Lawson, by moving to the Racing Bulls, can take solace from the fact he still gets to compete in F1 and he is not the first driver to have not made it with the team. The onus, and ultimately pressure, will now be on him to prove he is still able to carve out a successful career in the sport and, maybe more importantly, be remembered for what he goes on to achieve rather than being known as the driver Red Bull got rid of after only two races.
CNN
05-02-2025
- Business
- CNN
Why China is blacklisting Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger after Trump's tariffs
Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger are caught in the middle of a budding US-China trade war. China's Ministry of Finance placed PVH, the parent company of the two American clothing brands, on its 'unreliable entities list,' essentially a blacklist of companies. It was part of a broad package of economic measures the Chinese government announced targeting the United States following President Donald Trump's implementation of 10% tariffs on all Chinese imports. A Chinese Ministry of Commerce spokesperson said Tuesday that it found PVH discriminated against and interfered with the operations of Chinese companies, though the spokesperson failed to provide specifics. China also added US biotech company Illumina to the blacklist. Being added to the 'unreliable entities' list could bar PVH from doing business in China or lead to fines or other penalties, experts say. 'Going after PVH is notable because it's the first time a consumer brand was targeted' with the 'unreliable entity' designation, said Sam Ide, a vice president who specializes in China at the Asia Group, a business consulting firm. Previously, the Chinese government had added US defense companies to the list. PVH criticized the decision and said it would work with Chinese authorities to resolve the situation. PVH, like all US retailers, prohibits direct or indirect sourcing from China's far western Xinjiang province. The US began banning all goods produced in the region during President Joe Biden's administration over forced labor concerns. Human rights groups say Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities have faced a raft of human rights abuses in the region, including being placed in mass internment camps. The Chinese government may be retaliating against the company for its refusal to source cotton from Xinjiang, which has been linked to forced labor of Uyghur minorities. In September, Beijing said it was investigating PVH for 'violating normal market transaction principles' by boycotting cotton sourced from Xinjiang. China has described the facilities as 'vocational training centers' and claimed in 2019 that such centers had been closed. Officials have consistently denied all allegations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang. PVH has a 'significant enough China presence, but it also wasn't going to have big economic ramifications,' Ide said. It's not clear why the Chinese government targeted PVH specifically, but Ide noted PVH 'checks a few boxes' and the company isn't as big as Nike or other popular US brands in China, so there would be fewer job losses and less of a fallout if PVH shut down in the country. Restrictions on PVH's business in China would be a blow to the company. In 2023, China contributed 6% of PVH's revenue and 16% of its profit. Calvin Klein has a physical presence in virtually every Chinese province. 'China is an important growth engine,' PVH CEO Stefan Larsson said on an earnings call in April. 'We continue to focus on driving overall brand awareness, especially in China, where both Calvin and Tommy are under-penetrated.' CNN's Juliana Liu and Simone McCarthy contributed to this article.
