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    Taylor Tepper

    • Thumbnail I want more than 7 percent a year. I’ll need as much money as possible for what I want to spend. (Illustration by Alassandra  Micheletti) IT’S AN EARLY MORNING in September. The sky is dark. I am in bed. And I am still very poor. For graduate students, early mornings in September are the perverse cousins of [...]

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      Taylor Tepper wrote a new blog post: Adventures in Mutual Fund Land   1 month, 3 weeks ago · View

    • Costco Wholesale Co. ( COST) stock rose by 5.3 percent as of 1 p.m. Wednesday, after the bulk retailer announced that it will increase its dividend by $3 billion, or $7 a share, and same-sale store sales that beat analysts expectations. This is the second time Costco increased its dividend this year prior to the “fiscal [...]

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      Taylor Tepper wrote a new blog post: Costco Analysts Round-Up   5 months, 3 weeks ago · View

    • Torristi Italian Specialties, the tony restaurant on Mulberry Street, will charge more for its prix-fixe menu, reports The New York Times’ diners blog . On Dec. 1, the seven-course meal will charge $75 per person, an increase of $10. Torristi will also update the menu allowing two pastas to choose from, as well as a dessert. “With these changes [...]

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      Taylor Tepper wrote a new blog post: Torristi Gets Tonier   5 months, 3 weeks ago · View

    • Mobile, Alabama’s economy is much like the rest of the country’s: stuck in neutral. The unemployment rate for March was 8.4 percent, while the city’s construction industry’s payrolls fell by more than 12 percent since last year. The housing industry is not much better. Median home prices are down 14 percent, year over year, and [...]

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      Taylor Tepper wrote a new blog post: Bottomed out? A housing bottom will not mean a housing a recovery   11 months, 2 weeks ago · View

    • TAYLOR: Aaron Ryoo learned about a condition called fistula-in-ano almost a year ago. He was volunteering in a free clinic in Nepal and a doctor asked if he wanted to observe a surgery. It was Aaron’s first time in a surgical theater. A man in his late-forties was wheeled into the cavernous room with his [...]

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      Taylor Tepper wrote a new blog post: I (don’t) want to a (primary care) doctor when I grow up (Audio)   11 months, 2 weeks ago · View

    • Home prices are expected to decline for the sixth month in a row, as housing continues to be a drag on the post-recession recovery. A survey of 31 economists polled by Bloomberg predicted that home prices through February 2012 will fall by 3.4 percent compared to this time last year. Standard and Poor’s/ Case-Shiller home price [...]

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      Taylor Tepper wrote a new blog post: Home Prices Likely to Show a Decline in February   1 year ago · View

    • Home prices continued to decline in January, despite improving economic conditions. The Standard & Poor’s/ Case-Shiller indices found that homes fell 3.8 percent in value nationally since January 2011. It is the fifth straight month of decline, and the average U.S. home is now worth what it was in early 2003 – - when the [...]

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      Taylor Tepper wrote a new blog post: Home Prices Decline in January   1 year, 1 month ago · View

    • HOST: Flooding in the Gowanus Canal is all too familiar to Park Slope residents. New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection is doing something about it – by 2030. Last week, city officials announced a multi-million dollar effort to stop sewage from running into rivers and creeks, and stop water from drowning avenue blocks. A [...]

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      Taylor Tepper wrote a new blog post: Flooding in the gowanus (Audio)   1 year, 2 months ago · View

    • Last month’s massive foreclosure settlement was initially considered a win for homeowners, but in reality, it’s impact on the still struggling housing market is likely to be small at best. Some economists think that the amount of money dedicated to mortgage principal reduction in the settlement is too low to substantially aid underwater homeowners, while [...]

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      Taylor Tepper wrote a new blog post: $26 Billion Settlement Unlikely to Affect Home Prices   1 year, 2 months ago · View

    • Success Academy Charter Schools opened its first school in Harlem in 2006 for kindergarteners and first-graders. It is now an “A” school and teaches more than 600 kids all the way through eighth-grade. Since then, Success Academy has started eight new schools across the city, and will open three more in Brooklyn next August. Maybe. [...]

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      Taylor Tepper wrote a new blog post: New Charter Schools Confront Lawsuits   1 year, 2 months ago · View

    • SAT scores are not the end-all-be-all of education metrics. Its limits are well known . Wealthier students have more access to prep classes, the test itself is geared toward native English speakers, and some people are just not that good at test taking. And yet. While the test may be limited, it is still an essential hurdle [...]

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      Taylor Tepper wrote a new blog post: A Portrait of a City by SAT Scores (Interactive Graph Feature)   1 year, 2 months ago · View

    • Home prices declined in most major cities across the U.S. in December for the fourth straight month, according to the Standard and Poor’s/ Case-Shiller home price index, despite lower unemployment figures and recent home sales gain. Homes are now worth what they were in late 2002. The decline in home prices was higher than economists’ [...]

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      Taylor Tepper wrote a new blog post: U.S. Home Prices Fall in December   1 year, 2 months ago · View

    • Transcript: TAYLOR TEPPER: New York City is not fertile ground for the GOP. In 2008, President Obama carried Manhattan by a wide margin. And if Harlem resident John Anderson has his way, 2012 will be no different. ANDERSON: As far as being President, I think he’s doing a damn good job, excuse my language. TEPPER: [...]

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      Taylor Tepper wrote a new blog post: New Yorkers Respond to Florida Primary (Radio Feature)   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    • Last November, several hundred protesters shuffled into the Tribeca Performing Arts Center to rally against hydraulic fracturing. Environmentalists, actors and concerned citizens gave three-minute soliloquys outlining their opposition to the gas-drilling technique. One Brooklyn resident, Alex Greenleaf, even sang a two-minute protest song. Greenleaf was just one of 60,000 people to submit a public comment [...]

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      Taylor Tepper wrote a new blog post: Anti-Fracking Groups Move From Grassroots Organizing to Lobbying   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    • By: Taylor Tepper and Jane Teeling It will take more than wet weather to dampen the spirits of the Washington Square Park Carolers. Huddled under umbrellas at the foot of the park’s iconic white arches, the carolers sang holiday favorites such as ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen’ and ‘Frosty the Snowman,’ the December rain running [...]

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      Taylor Tepper wrote a new blog post: Carolers Reign in Christmas with Song   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    • Thumbnail By: Taylor Tepper | St. Petersburg Times  | June 8, 2011 For the past 50 years, each morning has started with a series of Vinyasa yoga poses that stretch the legs, shoulders and arms. Yoga instructor Bernice Bates incorporates those exercises throughout the rest of her day as well. “When you do yoga you are increasing your [...]

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      Taylor Tepper wrote a new blog post: Pinellas Park’s Bernice Bates, on cusp of 91, may be world’s oldest yoga instructor   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    • By: Taylor Tepper | St. Petersburg Times | May 15, 2011 GULFPORT — Plans to update the fire alarm system at the Town Shores over-55 condominiums has drawn the ire of residents. The new system, which comes with a $700,000 price tag, or $700 per unit just for installation, has left many residents confused and angry. To make [...]

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      Taylor Tepper wrote a new blog post: Fire alarm updates raise tempers, fees at Town Shores condos in Gulfport   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    • Thumbnail By: Taylor Tepper |  St. Petersburg Times | May 11, 2011 ST. PETE BEACH  — Residents of Pass-a-Grille will soon lose a valued establishment, as the Eighth Avenue Post Office will close on June 17. The abrupt notice came as a shock to the sleepy beach community, which will now have to wend farther into St. Pete Beach to [...]

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      Taylor Tepper wrote a new blog post: Century-old Pass-a-Grille post office closing in June   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    • By: Taylor Tepper | St. Petersburg Times | April 27, 2011 ST. PETERSBURG  — At least nine local groups will unite for the YWCA’s third annual “Stand Against Racism.” The local event, which starts at 6 p.m. Friday in the Legacy Garden at the Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum, is dubbed “Standing Against Racism — Moving [...]

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      Taylor Tepper wrote a new blog post: St. Petersburg groups unite for Stand Against Racism   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    • ThumbnailBy: Taylor Tepper | New Roots News | April 1, 2011 It starts with a wooden beam that runs parallel to the ceiling in the den. It starts with a waxwing tapping against a glass window. It starts with some innocuous, quotidian, exchange with the children. It can start with anything. Peter Meinke, St. Petersburg’s current, and [...]

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      Taylor Tepper wrote a new blog post: A note from the editor: St. Petersburg poet Laureate Peter Meinke opens his slice of Arcadia to New Roots News   1 year, 3 months ago · View

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