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Mayor Parker successfully lobbied Harrisburg to allow the city to create a 20 year tax abatement for the conversion, and demolition, of underutilized buildings to residential uses. She says an affordability component will be part of her bill next year: www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

In an executive order, Trump exempted dozens of Brazilian food products, including coffee and beef, from the 40% increased tariffs he imposed in an ill-fated attempt to help former President Jair Bolsonaro dodge a coup attempt trial

NEW: A proposed regulation would have denied disability benefits to at least 830,000 older blue-collar workers. But after reporting from ProPublica and others, the Trump administration has killed the plan.

French water and waste giant Veolia pays $3 billion for Enviri $NVRI 's PA-based Clean Earth to burn, recycle lots more U.S. medical, computer, industrial waste www.inquirer.com/business/veo...

Rep. Houlahan: I never in a million years thought I'd be talking to you about the fact that the President of the United States has called for my death by hanging. His intent is clear, and it validates why we were concerned ...

Trump's anti-DEI crusade hit healthcare when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, under Dr. Mehmet Oz, removed race questions from its kidney failure patient form. The problem is, those questions weren't about DEI. That data informed actual medical breakthroughs talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...

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How Delaware, as the 'corporate capital,' helped ChatGPT maker OpenAI restructure and raise more billions, without losing its "save the world" mission, and with a CarnegieMellon prof's finger on a kill switch. Can this new structure work? My story: www.inquirer.com/business/ope...

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NEW: The Philadelphia Housing Authority is planning sweeping layoffs that will affect more than 300 of the agency’s 1,200 employees. Instead of directly employing union electricians, carpenters and other workers, beginning next year, the agency will contract out for those jobs as needed.

When half the internet doesn't work because of a failure of a single vendor, that vendor is a utility, in the same way that power, water, and, back in the day, the phone companies, are/were utilities. 3/5

Philly is both beautiful and brutal and I love it here.

Axalta, DuPont’s auto paint spin-off, agrees to AkzoNobel buy-out, will keep Philly HQ open $AKZA $AXTA my story www.inquirer.com/business/axa...

$Q: DuPont spin-off Qnity, which supplies AMD, Samsung and other big chip-makers and users, is already worth more than what's left of the parent company. My update on Qnity and other DuPont spin-offs: www.inquirer.com/business/qni...

ByHeart now recalling all products and beings sued: www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...

Several thousand people took to the streets of Mexico City on Saturday to protest crime, corruption and impunity in a demonstration organized by members of Generation Z, but which ended with strong backing from older supporters of opposition parties.

U.S. Catholic bishops speak out on depostations youtu.be/nsMQ8V4pNCI?...

'Blood is red, not blue:' 'Bold' Swedish drugstore supplier Essity, w/US HQ in Philly + Tork plant in South Jersey, buys 450-worker Playtex works and its O.B., Stayfree, Carefree lines in Delaware (they don't make girdles or NASA suits anymore). My story: www.inquirer.com/business/ess...

Penn, 2 years after leadership crisis, shrinks its bloated Trustee board a little, once-powerful alumni society is cut out, key emeritus still has big influence, Governance bloc gains power. @SSnyderInq breaks it down w assist from me: www.inquirer.com/education/up...

My Philly Inquirer story on the "Last Penny" struck at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia (last working legacy of the city's years as the first U.S. capital) got a pile of readers www.inquirer.com/business/min...

U.S. Mint makes its last penny in Philly after 232 years of copper cents. 100 jobs cut since last year. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/min...

🚌 Inquirer transportation reporter Tom Fitzgerald answers some FAQs about what the f— happened with Philly’s Greyhound station. 🚏 As he puts it, “It’s an equity issue.” Watch the full video ⤵️

Innovative Aerosystems $ISSC: This newly renamed Pa. company is leading the rush to pilotless jets, 'reshoring' all its hardware and software production in-house, adding space, and hiring aggressively. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/inn...

Pro-ICE sheriff ousted by PA voters in competitive Bucks County north of Philly www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

Sojo at Stateside-Surfside: How these private equity-backed robot systems are taking over soft drink packaging. My latest: www.inquirer.com/business/soj...

The AWK American Water Works - WTRG Essential / Aqua merger and its critics, from short-sellers to utility socialists. I ask: Is it really a 'monopoly' if 5 million of 180 million USA homes are customers? www.inquirer.com/business/ame...

Son 5 was at his South Philly polling place early.

Why is PA.gov down? And not too long after the Shapiro administration terminated its CTO and CIO www.inquirer.com/business/tec...

Why are 10,000 engineers and other STEM scholars in Center City Philly this week? And why are so many speaking Spanish? Their @SHPE has come in. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/shp...

Zhao is the latest prominent crypto businessman to receive a pardon in Trump’s second term. Here's what to know

USA’s top private water and sewage operators, Philly-based $AWK and $WTRG, are merging, just in time to supply big data centers. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/ame...

2 big Philly projects: @Sixers, @NHLFlyers hire contractors to build new South Philly arena, clear 2 blocks of Market Street in Center City. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/six...

In Bucks County, plans for a massive data center has spurred a call to protect consumers from getting hit with power grid costs.

Dozens of Philadelphia-area Catholics rallied outside the Center City ICE office on Wednesday, joining a pro-immigrant push undertaken by fellow church groups around the country.

CHOP called new evidence presented by President Donald Trump’s administration weak and untrustworthy in a blistering legal response to federal efforts to investigate its doctors providing gender-affirming care.

Gun-injury care cost U.S. hospitals $7.7 billion from 2016 to 2021, with Medicaid covering 52 percent of costs:

Trump limits on lifetime federal college loans pushes students to private lenders, who turn most of them down. So private equity is backing this new "second-look" lender, who charges extra for risky college loans: www.inquirer.com/business/gra...

Penn in Philly is the latest U.S. research university to reject Trump conditions for U.S. aid, Inquirer's Susan Snyder writes www.inquirer.com/education/pe... via @phillyinquirer

Why JPMorgan Chase is still opening bank branches while Wells Fargo and everyone else is shutting them down: my report from Philly www.inquirer.com/business/jpm...

China cuts off Philly Shipyard supplies to punish Korea's Hanwha for siding with U.S. in trade war. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/han...

Navy 250: This admiral from New Jersey wants to bring back Philadelphia, where the U.S. Navy was born, as a naval shipbuilding center. My interview with Tom Armstrong, USN (retired) now at Hanwha Shipbuilding: www.inquirer.com/business/nav...

Two top PA tech officials are out. My latest:https://www.inquirer.com/business/tech-executives-pennsylvania-shapiro-administration-20251010.html

Investor David Kotok, who recently sold his $3.3B AUM Cumberland Advisors to George Norcross' Mid_Penn Bank, on why the University of Pennsylvania shouldn't accept fellow Penn alumni President Trump's conditions on U.S. aid: dkotok.substack.com/p/ben-frankl...

Investor David Kotok, who recently sold his $3.3B AUM Cumberland Advisors to George Norcross' Mid_Penn Bank, on why the University of Pennsylvania shouldn't accept fellow Penn alumni President Trump's conditions on U.S. aid: dkotok.substack.com/p/ben-frankl...

When Brazil’s Lula and Donald Trump finally talked over their differences Monday, the man at the center of their months-long spat didn’t even merit a mention

CEO of Philly's biggest bank notes that working class Americans are being squeezed by inflation and a slowing economy, and small/midsized businesses are slowing investment, but affluent investors are still doing well. my Q&A with WSFS's Rodger Levenson: www.inquirer.com/business/wsf...

Who will make the steel for the data centers? “The community itself showed that we have data scientists. We have engineers. We have these people in our community. They showed up and they directly refuted what this developer is trying to sell us.” www.inquirer.com/consumer/tec...

Journalist Mario Guevara, whose reporting annoyed ICE, to be deported from US in unprecedented case www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/jour...