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...

Delivery service Gopuff tracks SuperBowl XL snacks: Ferrero's Nerds Gummy Clusters and KinderBueno ads quadrupled traffic; but limes🇲🇽beat everything - with zero ads. My latest: www.inquirer.com/business/gop...

At @Vanguard_Group , an outsourcing reversal; and, some bosses are H-1b immigrants. My latest: www.inquirer.com/business/van...

He's not a banker or a software engineer. How did Mike Petrakis use hotel capital, credit unions and bank deals to turn PowerPay into a $5 billion, 225-worker, PA-based fintech lender? www.inquirer.com/business/pow...

Exhibit of this ecosystem: Many local news pieces on ICE detention centers are referencing stories broken by the Post and Bloomberg.

Reminder that the Parker admin chose to allow this tax hike for small businesses rather than trying to defend against a lawsuit challenging the BIRT exemption. But the people most to blame for rising taxes for Philly small businesses are the PA Republicans who refuse to change the uniformity clause.

Problem: Surge in data center construction is driving up electric power costs, writes Inquirer's Frank Kummer inquirer.com/business/tec... Gov Shapiro: We'll speed up PA data center approvals - if you add your own power plants, per Erin McCarthy www.inquirer.com/politics/pen... From inquirer.com

I started my 2025 filing today and, yeah, this BIRT change is a HUGE local tax hike on Schedule Cs in Philly. I owe double what I paid last year, after making less money. Plus, it ends up being even more than that substantively because you have to pre-pay all of 2026.

'Destabilizing and difficult': How a Pa. helicopter factory is coping with shifting payments from the U.S. military. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/leo...

'Destabilizing and difficult': How a Pa. helicopter factory is coping with shifting payments from the U.S. military. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/leo...

As Daedalus, founded by ex-Trump officials who transport immigration deportees, seeks lease at Wilmington DE airport @FlyILG, activists push NJ and DE governors to say No; DRBA authority fears losing U.S. funding, writes Brianna Hill @Spotlight302: spotlightdelaware.org/2026/01/27/w...

Analyst: This planned private water/sewer merger is good for buyer @AWK - but target @WTRG shareholders should vote NO on Feb. 10. Deal would end a 100+ year rivalry between two Phila area companies. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/ame...

Record business profits, workers cutting costs: an update on middle America, q&a w/ @CitizensBank ceo Bruce Van Saun www.inquirer.com/business/cit...

Fallcatcher: Fugitive recovery fraudster Henry Ford, who spent 5 years on the run in Asia, Africa, Latin America, sentenced for fooling Pa. investors, SEC. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/hen...

'Everyone has shifted to private credit,' which just makes stuff up. For example: www.inquirer.com/business/pri...

Probably one of the worst decisions made by this administration to date. And a huge chunk of the revenue will just go to enforce the BIRT onto microscopically small businesses. If you're not going to even try to fight uniformity clause then you don't care about the economic future of the city

Will smartphones split the Amish? For both sides, 'I am the bad boy,' says a Plain computer network maker. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/all...

How Philly small businesses are coping with a 'tax cut' that is forcing tens of thousands to pay the city's unusual revenue and income taxes for the first time www.inquirer.com/business/bir...

U.S. funds will train @PhillyShipyard workers. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/shi...

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).