• Florida Homestead Tax Sparks Debate Over Who Will Pay for Local Services,Tristan Navera

    Florida Homestead Tax Sparks Debate Over Who Will Pay for Local Services

    The debate lines are solidifying around Florida's proposed homestead tax rollback, with voters just weeks from deciding whether to radically reform the state's property tax system. Outgoing Gov. Ron DeSantis championed an initiative to eliminate property taxes. Ultimately, a narrower version of his

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  • Cheap Money Built a Generation of Wealth. What Happens to Housing When It’s Gone?,Allaire Conte

    Cheap Money Built a Generation of Wealth. What Happens to Housing When It’s Gone?

    Central bankers gathered in Bangkok this week are confronting a possibility with enormous implications for household wealth: Cheap money may not be coming back. “There is a global fight for money,” European central bank policymaker Martins Kazaks told Reuters, pointing to the enormous capital demand

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  • St. Louis Wants To Build a $3 Billion Tech Hub—but the Data Center Anchoring It Is Sparking Backlash,Snejana Farberov

    St. Louis Wants To Build a $3 Billion Tech Hub—but the Data Center Anchoring It Is Sparking Backlash

    Best known as America's historic brewing capital, St. Louis is seeking to reinvent itself as a regional tech hub by rolling out the red carpet for a sprawling new technology park anchored by a giant data center—a project that has drawn public backlash and triggered legal battles. A city of roughly 2

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