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Cole Epley

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Recovering journalist; president of the Cap'n Geech & the Shrimp Shack Shooters fan club; @MBJMemphis alum, @OWHmoney exile

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Cole Epley’s Biography

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Cole Epley is a freelance journalist and aspiring bicycle tourist living in Council Bluffs, Iowa. His award-winning business reporting on topics including energy and utilities, banking, payments and real estate has been published in the Omaha World-Herald and affiliates, as well as in the Memphis Business Journal and American City Business Journals affiliates.

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As natural gas prices plummeted, OPPD leaders clung to expensive, inefficient Fort Calhoun

As natural gas prices plummeted, OPPD leaders clung to expensive, inefficient Fort Calhoun

Two months before Missouri River floodwaters in 2011 threatened the smallest operating nuclear plant in the c…

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With new EMV cards, tipping is about to get a lot more awkward

With new EMV cards, tipping is about to get a lot more awkward

When card issuers started mailing out new chip cards back in 2015, waiters and waitresses discovered a major …

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Tully's Kennels petition shows how social media makes activism easy - but a spark can become a vi...

Tully's Kennels petition shows how social media makes activism easy - but a spark can become a vi...

Cassandra Johnsen, like many people in Omaha, had heard the horror stories about Tully's Kennel. The pet shop…

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The Million-Dollar Men of Memphis Healthcare

The Million-Dollar Men of Memphis Healthcare

Not-for-profit healthcare providers were challenged just as much, if not more, than their for-profit counterp…

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Farms face steep slide: Net profits this year expected to be half of what they were in 2013

Farms face steep slide: Net profits this year expected to be half of what they were in 2013

As the farm economy continued its slide in early 2017, some farmers had the feeling they were being boiled al…

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Unlike its OPPD cousin at Fort Calhoun, NPPD's Cooper Nuclear Station staying the course

Unlike its OPPD cousin at Fort Calhoun, NPPD's Cooper Nuclear Station staying the course

About 80 miles separate Nebraska's two nuclear power plants, but they might as well be separated by a light-y…

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Gallup hopes halting presidential horse-race polling will shine light on other ventures

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By Cole Epley
| Omaha World-Herald Verified
Gallup hopes halting presidential horse-race polling will shine light on other ventures Gallup’s move away from the political horse race might seem to be an abandonment of the company’s bread and butter. After all, what’s an election without the Gallup Poll? But Gallup has moved beyond the who’s up, who’s down of politics, the company says. It’s been long-focused on workplace and marketplace consulting, and it wants the public to focus on that part of its business, too.
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The Rise of the Contract Worker

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By Cole Epley
| Omaha Magazine Verified
Omaha’s slogan is “We Don’t Coast,” but we do…at least in one respect. Employees in Midwestern cities like Omaha are less likely to work side gigs than are their counterparts elsewhere in the United States, and they’re among the least likely in the country to have changed jobs in the last two years.
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The Spice Of Guatemala on South 24th Street

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By Cole Epley
| Omaha Magazine Verified
The proprietor of the city’s only Guatemalan restaurant says things have gone so well at Chiltepes that—barely a year after opening in South Omaha at 4833 S. 24th St.—she is already considering opening a second location in Lincoln. That’s a lofty goal for a restaurateur new to Nebraska’s dining scene. But make no mistake; Floridalma Herrera is no novice to the food industry. She has been sharpening her business acumen since she was in elementary school.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Media critic for my high school newspaper, Warrior Signals, and sports reporter for The Walnut Bureau, the local weekly in my home town.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, I own one.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Clark Kent