@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

ICE officers getting paid for standing around doing nothing while TSA employees work without pay is a pretty succinct summation of where we're at right now

Large parts of Cuba were without power on Tuesday after its third blackout in four months underscored the island’s deepening energy and economic crises and rising political tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump.

PA gives cash, tax breaks to Bill Gates-backed TerraPower to help build $450MM Philly medical-apps plant on ex-refinery site, will employ 225, writes Philadelphia Inquirer's Harold Brubakerr: www.inquirer.com/health/terra...

USA: No more olive branch fortune.com/2026/03/12/u...

USA: No more olive branch fortune.com/2026/03/12/u...

Ellie Rushing of the Philadelphia Inquirer makes clear the murderous course of a West Philly drug gang and the Philadelphia police who stopped them, as survivors face trial in a less dangerous city: www.inquirer.com/crime/ybc-in...

Philly's 600-store @RitasItalianIce & Frozen Custard, now under its fourth private-equity owner, hopes year-round drive-thru will power growth. This Spring's new flavor is based on @Peepsbrand. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/rit...

CitizenBank... #IceGestapo goft link: share.inquirer.com/2ZROHX

After big banks declined to fund ICE prison contractors, #$CFG @CitizenBank stepped in, drawing protesters. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/cit...

In Wilmington, 1,000+ apartments are replacing the former DuPont, bank and chemical headquarters that used to line Rodney Square. My story: www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

In Delaware today

#$AON, #$HNLE Hamilton Lane, FS' Portfolio Advisors agree to pay PA teachers $30MM to settle lawsuit: their bad advice led PSERS to private equity + hedge funds that did poorly, cost school staff $87MM in extra payroll deductions. No taxpayer refund, tho. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/pse...

Three Amazon data centers in the Gulf have been hit in drone strikes, showing how such facilities are at risk of becoming wartime targets.

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He's back: Can Pierre Brondeau save FMC, the big non-GMO pesticide maker and one of the last corporate HQs in Philly? My story: www.inquirer.com/business/fmc...

Philadelphia's 30th St. Amtrak travelers, Septa commuters endure endless renovation, scarce restaurants. But at least there's local-made Empanadas United sold at owner VDC's Evolvending machine. Also at Atlanta, Boston airports. My quick story: www.inquirer.com/business/30t...

Use tariffs against USA's enemies, not our friends, says National Association of Manufacturers leader in Philly. For factory rival: Tax cuts help -- but killing immigration hurts. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/nat...

Local magnate: Mike Bontrager left home for Wall Street, came back to start 850-person hedge fund risk adviser Chatham Financial, and is reshaping 'America's Mushroom Capital,' Kennett Square, as he battles ALS. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/ken...

How did Louisiana native Mike Lloyd, a Saints fan, end up owning + running IMC, one of the mid-Atlantic's biggest general construction contractors? He had Ivy League, Big Law, Wall Street cred. Also, he married the boss's daughter. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/imc...

Metal politics: Pa. plant world's largest preps tungsten for missiles, aircraft, smartphones. Cheap China mines controlled supply. USA limits pushed price to record. So plant's Euro owner, w USA aid, now buys from reopened mines in Korea, Rwanda. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/glo...

Big Water: AmWater #$AWK takeover of Essential / Aqua #$WTRG for-profit water, sewer, gas utilities wins big shareholder vote, tho a few balk at millions for departing CEO. Will state PUCs approve, too? My latest: www.inquirer.com/business/ame...