Advance Morning News
It's Friday, October 11, 2024. Today's stories look at one couple's efforts to challenge their tax reassessment, and Bruce Saller shining sunlight on the green energy needed to fuel data centers.
By Martin Davis
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Mitigating Subjectivity Key to Successful Tax Reassessments
One wouldn’t think there’s much connection between Downtown Greens and residential real-estate tax assessments, but to Chris Schmidt of Fredericksburg, the controversy over the former led to asking a series of probing questions about the latter.
What he’s learned is that “subjectivity” can play a significant role in the reassessment process.
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Economic Cents: Green Energy Needed for Data Centers
Data centers will demand considerably more energy in the near future. To ensure that that demand doesn’t worsen climate change, more green energy will need to be produced. How much? Bruce Saller breaks in down in this week’s column.
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