Robot dogs! Norristown, Pa. maker's flying and marching robots get new USAF Air Force deal. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/asy...

Delta Air Lines: As oil prices soared, Pa. refinery leak and fire boosted jet fuel 5 cents a gallon; production there still 25% below target; expects fuel has peaked at $3.93/2q and is headed lower in 3q. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/del...

Delta Air Lines: As oil prices soared, Pa. refinery leak and fire boosted jet fuel 5 cents a gallon; production there still 25% below target; expects fuel has peaked at $3.93/2q and is headed lower in 3q. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/del...

I’ve always said that *well-regulated* sports gambling should be legal, and one of those regulations should be that active athletes (and bryce certainly isn’t the first, though this crosses a new line) cannot touch this stuff with a 39 1/2 foot pole

Public education and better rules and enforcement are desperately needed. Aging lithium ion batteries are dangerous. Dispose of them properly— no, not in the garbage!

America’s scrapyards are burning with lithium-ion battery fires from discarded tools and appliances. Recyclers have a solution, manufacturers are blocking it, and metal is piling up. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/scr...

China securities regulators, or their trader friends, used inside information to rip off Susquehanna SIG for $71 million, Pa. billionaire trader and China investor Jeff Yass' firm says in a federal lawsuit: www.inquirer.com/business/jef...

Still relevant, 215 years after Thomas Jefferson killed it: As First Bank of the United States museum opens in Philly, U.S. Supreme Court's Roberts cites its independence in refusing Trump's Fed firing; Thomas protests 'short-lived' precedent. My story: From inquirer.com

No sale: FMC lands a $400MM investment from Belgium's Tessenderlo, boss Pierre Brondeau's board ends 'strategic process.' My story: www.inquirer.com/business/fmc...

Still relevant 215 years after shutdown: As First Bank of the United States museum opens in Philly, US Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts cites its independence in refusing Trump's Fed firing; Justice Thomas protests 'short-lived' precedent. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/fed...

After leak and fire knock Delta Air's Monroe refinery offline, we gotta ask: Could wartime profits pushed back maintenance, sparking accidents? And, how long til this Pa. refinery is back up - could airlines run short of fuel? www.inquirer.com/business/ref...

Triple revenues, or one big sale? Incyte CEO Bill Meury, who's sold a string of biotechs for billions, says his job at the $5B/year DE-based is growing cancer, blood, immune treatments. He tells me how: www.inquirer.com/business/inc...

An engineer who was part of Constellation Energy's NRC licensing team is accused of collecting $1.5 million in illegal options profits by insider-trading inside information on the Three Mile Island nuclear re-start. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/thr...

Pa. teachers PSERS outsource $20 BILLION in stock investments, cash out of trailer parks, pause private credit to probe murky value. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/pse...

Philadelphia's port is the fastest (tho far from the busiest) in North America, says a report backed by S&P and World Bank. Union and port leaders and top operator Leo Holt tell me why @Inquirer: www.inquirer.com/business/por...

The late Alan Greenspan, who led the Fed and was humbled by his misplaced faith in bankers to do the right thing, was more candid when he was out of power and had books to sell, then he ever was in Congress. Our interview: www.inquirer.com/philly/blogs...

Confirmed: Delta Airlines' 200,000 bbl/day Monroe Energy oil refinery is offline, at least a few days, to fix an inside leak. Parking lot's full, plant employs 500+ USW and bosses, hundreds of trades contractors. My quick story: www.inquirer.com/business/air...

Philly based stainless steel and alloys maker Carpenter Technology (Nasdaq: CRS), with $3 billion in yearly sales, is worth $30 billion, one of the USA metal stocks surging on hopes of war and SpaceX orders. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/car...

Philadelphia, you look amazing. www.inquirer.com/soccer/live/... via @phillysport.bsky.social @inquirer.com

Pa. meeting data center power. My stories: 1)Three Mile Island 835 MW re/open sooner than planned: www.inquirer.com/business/thr... 2)WhiteHawk Energy buying Appalachian gas rights PA , WV, OH to fuel data centers and Gulf-area rights TX, LA, OK for LNG export: www.inquirer.com/business/nat...

#$WHK: This newly-public Philly-based virtual company, with ties to fracking pioneers, is buying up USA's natural gas rights: www.inquirer.com/business/nat...

@ExynTech Pa. robotics hardware & software mapping maker hopes its modest IPO, debt payments, acquisitions will help grow past high development costs (> R). Also, @UPenn-born Exyn, once reluctant, has embraced supplying systems for drone and urban warfare. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/exy...

AI is creating jobs at US small businesses, while owners who were blue last year have shrugged off interest rates and tariffs and are borrowing to grow, TD's boss banker for Phila and D.C. tells me: www.inquirer.com/business/td-...

AI is creating jobs at US small businesses, while owners who were blue last year have shrugged off interest rates and tariffs and are borrowing to grow, TD's boss banker for Phila and D.C. tells me: www.inquirer.com/business/td-...

I think it's more efficient now! And making it shipping-container-portable is genius. Refinery in a can, just plug in and make fuel -- if you can get the power --

Airco: Military, commercial airlines pumping millions into this new Pa. factory that makes container-sized plants to make synthetic jet fuel from air, water + electric power www.inquirer.com/business/air...

Pump and dump: How did this veteran-owned Pa. investment firm end up churning out Nasdaq IPOs targeted by WhatsApp, TikTok and Twitter promoters for explosion and collapse? My story: www.inquirer.com/business/pum...

Mid Penn: Norcross family seeks 25% stake in PA bank that's buying its way into NJ. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/nor...

Uri Monson: on cutting borrowing costs for Phila schools + county + PA state, underpaid/overpaid public workers, and his years as PA Gov. Josh Shapiro's financial brain: www.inquirer.com/business/uri...

Can AI clone a CEO? At this Pa. bank, it already has. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/cus...

Back to Texas: Mexico's billionaire Servitje family moves its Bimbo USA headquarters away from 'Grandpa Stroehman's' suburban Philly home as sliced-bread sales sag. Ariana Perez-Castells with the story: www.inquirer.com/business/bim...

Dean Adler, divorced from longtime business partner Ira Lubert, is betting big on Philly real estate projects despite the weak market. @JBlumgart asks him why: www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Starbucks ex-boss Howard Schultz joins Philly-based Gopuff as director, adviser www.inquirer.com/business/gop...

Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' changes to charity tax breaks = ^^ giving to Donor-Advised Funds, say 2 of the biggest DAF centers, Natl Philanthropic Trust + Vanguard Charitable. NPT chief Holly Welch Stubbing tells me more + why they're moving to Conshy, not Philly: www.inquirer.com/business/nat...

Peco CEO is Out after failed Philly-area electric and gas rate hike plans. Our story: www.inquirer.com/business/pec...

Thanks to Airbnb (credit where it's due), subway rides back from World Cup matches in Philadelphia will be *free*. (Not even the normal $2.90.) In other words, as @theathletic.com points out, it'll be cheaper for New Yorkers to take Amtrak to Philly for a match than to go to the Meadowlands.

how does dan think his service-based company will make money if 1/3 of his potential customers are unemployed

The S&P500 added #$ERIE. Over the next year, its share value fell by half. By the way, this state-regulated company's 90-year-old chairman is top donor to the state's ambitious governor. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/eri...

'PHL PRIME": As offices slump, 'eds and meds' shut, Philly pivots to industrial revival, pledges special speedy permits for big port, shipyard, warehouse developers. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/ind...

This Tax Day, gig workers and small business owners are facing an unexpected tax that is costing them thousands while wealthy corporations skip out on paying their fair share. People want their taxes to go towards things that matter, like schools & libraries, but they also want to be taxed sensibly.

Philadelphia leaders boosted taxes on 75,000 small-business owners - vendors, gig workers, and liberal professionals, some of whom feel neglected, taken for granted, even betrayed, and are organizing to roll back the levy. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/bir...

Widener University's Delaware Law School is moving to central Wilmington, part of an ex-banking district turned education center that Longwood Foundation chief Thère du Pont calls an urban model. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/wid...

Catholic bishops: U.S. threat to destroy Iran "cannot be morally justified" Trump must "step back from the precipice" Catholic bishops: U.S. threat to destroy Iran "cannot be morally justified" Trump must "step back from the precipice" www.usccb.org/news/2026/ar...

Yeah!

It's Hanwha Philly Shipyard vs. General Dynamics' NASSCO San Diego shipyard, for new Navy oilers. May bring Navy shipbuilding back to Philly. Other ships, near done. But, does USA really need the commercial ship volume, that wd make Philly yard profitable? My story: www.inquirer.com/business/han...

Gary Smith, the dairy farmer son of an immigrant who lured the drug, finance, software jobs that made Chester County the richest in PA, steps down after 50 years! running its powerhouse business-promotion council, and tells me how he did it: www.inquirer.com/business/gar...

Deb Shops are long gone, but prom-dress chain-store widow-and-daughter heiresses are stepping up a years-long fight for $400 million from the late Warren Weiner's estate. My short article: www.inquirer.com/business/deb...

The home of a Tylenol heir, who passed away in 2025, houses works by the greatest artists of minimalism — Sol LeWitt, Donal Judd, Dan Flavin — and often the best pieces from each.

During World War II, the Census Bureau provided addresses to the War Department which helped them locate, remove, and imprison 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast. It's sickening to see the same thing happening now.

Brent oil futures tumbled after President Trump said he instructed US forces to postpone all strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five-day period