The Trump administration laid out a plan intended to compel tech companies to effectively fund the construction of new power plants as a way to tame surging consumer utility bills while aiding the development of data centers

Governors and Trump agree: time to force PJM power network to make new data plants, not current consumers, pay for new power

Despite @elonmusk's "Dexit" campaign, "Delaware experienced a sharp increase in corporate incorporations in 2025, both absolutely and relative to other states," reports @harvardcorpgov H/t Lauren Pringle corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2026/01/15/a.... See also www.inquirer.com/business/elo...

Too many knuckleheads with guns

When Dave McCormick, ex of Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater hedge funds, beat U.S. Sen. Bob Casey D-PA, business contacts called him a sensible hope for post-Trump GOP. Haven’t seen much independence, but @fallonroth.bsky.social notes wife Dina Powell is getting ahead at $FB www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

U.S. gives $8 million to train Hanwha Philly Shipyard workers at community college, Korea sites. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/shi...

IYCMI: www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

It is a good article and I think these stories are important to tell. It is frustrating, similar to the soybean industry they knew what happened in Trump 1 but the areas hit hard still put him back in power adn the bailout really rubs me wrong. Giftlink: share.inquirer.com/Ntozj9

Pa. loggers: Trump tariff threats have cut export sales, forced us to pay tariff costs + driven equipment costs so high: we had to stop hiring + investing. We like the goal of protecting USA, but please give us a bailout, like you did farmers. -My story: www.inquirer.com/business/pen...

What to do with unwanted office buildings? These Pa. developers used Ori beds, credit-union cash, and China supply connections to turn an unwanted office building near failed Exton Mall into a high-end SRO for neighbors like Vanguard and QVC www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

U.S. move against Venezuela enables Trump donor Paul Singer to take over Citgo assets, including a controlling chunk of 300-acre Petty's Island next to Philadelphia, which NJ long coveted for a park, writes Inquirer's Frank Kummer www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

'C-minus at best': DuPont boss Ed Breen + Wall St banks made $$ breaking it up, but $DD returns trail $SPX badly, per WSJ www.msn.com/en-us/money/... As I wrote @PhillyInquirer, DuPont chip-supplies spin-off $QNITY is worth > DuPont, still makes Tyvek, Corian www.inquirer.com/business/qni...

Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce over his first year in office became clearer Wednesday with the release of new employment data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

@AveloAir cuts hub that flew @DHSgov deportees, cites uncertain profits. Did protests have an impact? My story: www.inquirer.com/business/ave...

E-commerce billionaire Marc Lore is trying to do to takeout what Amazon did to shopping. Do people want food made in a culinary fulfillment center?

Young people looking for a progressive career should consider insurance, those folks measure risk and can cancel bad behavior in ways government can’t or won’t

Government for Sale to corporate leaders, accused criminals www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Armed but not paid: Ex guards for Philly public housing, schools, gas works, Navy Yard sue security firm for missing wages, deposits. Lawyers for 100+ said they went unpaid while protecting the public. City officials stood by til I wrote about it. Latest: www.inquirer.com/business/sec...

apnews.com/article/cuba... says 32 Cuban officers were killed in US operation in Venezuela

Nursing home staffers told Robert Flesch that Peco had fixed the leak and the building was safe, he recalls, despite the lingering gas smell.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Deliveries of Chinese EVs to Mexico skyrocketed over 2,000% in November.

You know what’s next adventure.com/isle-of-man-...

Catholic Charities serves about 300,000 people annually, providing care for older Philadelphians, supporting at-risk youth, helping with food and shelter, and assisting those with developmental disabilities.

Elected officials, religious leaders, and community activists gathered Tuesday in City Hall to condemn recent “aggressive” and “appalling” ICE activity in the resort town.

A vote to stay local: In a rare refusal, Philly area credit union members reject leaders' plan to merge with a national operator. It's not even close. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/cre...

Delaware Supreme Court has effectively reversed the Chancery Court ruling against Elon Musk's record Tesla pay packaging. SCoD says that would leave Musk with no pay, which wouldn't be fair. Record plaintiff lawyer payout also sliced. Read the decision at courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Dow...

Maryland's slow fix on the Key Bridge has driven European shippers away, to the growing Port of Philadelphia, which has passed Baltimore as a container port, and is adding space under @HoltLogistics. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/car...

Fishtown Analytics was gonna build a Philly HQ. Silicon Valley didn't get the name, so they went to dbt Analytics. Bad Septa service helped convince its founders to work remote. Now joined with CA-based Fivetran. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/dbt...

Dean Vagnozzi sues U.S. for killing his business amid Par Funding investigation. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/dea...

Philly was once a top banking, investment, high-finance center. Under new owner KKR, the last of the old names, Janney Montgomery Scott, is getting out of investment banking, to be just a big RIA. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/jan...

'Not an investment genius': Philly private equity and real estate $20 billion fundraiser Ira Lubert on money-making casinos, money-losing data centers, state pensions and the funds he leaves behind. My short interview: www.inquirer.com/business/ira...

Telling the truth, a crime in China: Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai convicted in show trial

Atlantic City, a place of historic mayoral misdeeds, multi-millionaire overreach and chronic unwanted attention, has managed a new plot twist.

Trump’s Commerce Secretary learning on the job

ICYMI: Pennsylvania Medicaid recipients will no longer have access to Ozempic and other similar drugs for weight loss after a quiet move by the Shapiro administration to save the state money amid growing budget woes.

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos sought Donald Trump's blessing for the Warner Bros. takeover in a November meeting.

'Our immigrants are very brave': With a new, bank-backed branch in Philadelphia, Finanta credit union plans growth across Pennsylvania. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/fin...

Uri Monson, PA budget czar + Gov Shapiro confidant, is new chief at $80 billion PSERS school pension. The pair fired Wall Street managers at much smaller Montgomery County PA fund in 2013. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/pse...

FOR SALE: PA's ailing, second-largest mall after King of Prussia is on the block. Warehouses, apartments, or what? Jake Blumgart who broke the story in the Inquirer, weighs redevelopment options: www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

So this Philly guy, laid off by DHL, started Express Drains as plumbers' go-to unclogger, and it took off; then he needed 'simple' software to track 30 trucks + 100 calls/day, so those two Philly guys started Shwego to build the app: that's taking off, too. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/shw...

After 5+ years, 1,600 investors in Philly-based Ponzi scheme Par Funding get all/most of their $220 million in principal back, despite SEC warning it wouldn't happen. But was receivership the best way to go? 8 pleaded guilty, headed to prison. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/par...

DHS fails

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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