Scott Cohn

The 26th annual Santa Cruz Film Festival concludes on Sunday, October 18, with a The film, which premiered at the Dances With Films festival in Los Angeles in June where it won an Audience Award for Documentary Feature, tells the story of 94-year-old Gitt... See more

Voters in California will decide in November whether to impose a one-time, 5% tax on residents and trusts with a net worth of more than $1 billion. The proposal is deeply controversial, with opponents on both sides of the aisle warning that passage of the... See more

The world of economic development is spinning fast in 2026. Companies are pressing some specific demands of the states they are willing to do business in. They want low costs, minimal red tape, and turnkey sites that afford them the greatest speed to mark... See more

Say what you will about whether artificial intelligence is good for humanity. It is undoubtedly worth billions of dollars — and then some — to the states that can attract AI business. AI is a massive consumer of electricity, water, computing power, and la... See more

It was 2007. George W. Bush was president. The U.S. economy was expanding, but there were growing signs that the explosive growth in the housing market — and maybe the entire boom of the past five or six years — was a giant bubble. As gains became ever mo... See more