'We are a smart bet': 1200 African American insurers in Philly this week for NAAIA's biggest event, as mainstream companies back professional inclusion amid DEI reaction. My latest: www.inquirer.com/business/naa...

Hawk or dove? Meet the newest FOMC member. Anna Poulson and her mentors speak: www.inquirer.com/business/fed...

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

Chestnut time

Philly burns most of its trash in the suburbs. A council member’s proposal would stop that, without saying what they should do with all that garbage instead

With U.S. housing market flat, Toll Bros and Radian just cut multimillion-dollar deals that cut their business risk/expenses. My latest: t.co/qRhqyymzzP

In Pennsylvania’s largest immigrant detention center, detainees report violence, desperation, and little oversight. We take you inside the increasingly crowded Moshannon Valley Processing Center.

How ICE treats detainees at a Pa. prison: 'Violence, desperation, little oversight' www.inquirer.com/news/ice-imm...

🚴 The Manayunk Wall will be climbed again next summer as the Philadelphia Cycling Classic is slated to return, bringing some of the world’s top riders back to the city for the first time in 10 years. (1/3)

Philly landlord sent a gunman to scare a late-paying tenant. Tenant had a gun, too. They killed each other. @ellierushing.bsky.social reports:

How Comcast, Amazon's Kuiper and Elon Musk's SpaceX will share federal subsidies for extending Internet: Spotlight PA reports www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/09...

"Bulletproof glass covering our stained glass is a visible admission of defeat in the face of incomprehensible, preventable violence. These kids knew what to do. They did the drills. They followed the procedures. It didn't save them."

Trump's approval ratings are actually an improvement over his first term. Here's what it means for the midterms (via Bloomberg Opinion)

What boycott? UPenn's Wharton just scored its biggest donation ever, from high-tech-trading theory-and-practice master Bruce I. Jacobs, to fund quant investor ed. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/wha...

If Philly is a ‘labor town’, why were these guards unpaid as they stood watch over PHA housing, Navy Yard offices, and a high school? Still owed $1000s. My latest: www.inquirer.com/business/sov...

Vanguard Group settles undisclosed-bonus + failure-to-warn tax cases left over from CEO Buckley era, and copes with M&A fallout. My latest: www.inquirer.com/business/van...

ICE raids on Hyundai battery factory in GA could stall Philly shipyard plans: www.kedglobal.com/business-pol...

This also includes Hanwha's shipyard investment in the Philly Navy Yard. Just the worst possible timeline (cc @phillyjoed.bsky.social)

Great piece: “We work in dangerous settings. We climb bridges every day. My brother to the left and my brother to the right, they are my life. I depend on them. You take away my brother, you put my life at risk.” @phillyaflcio.bsky.social

Lawyer for Hyundai plant employees: One thing that's been unclear through all of this is why did ICE go to this plant? They didn't even bring a single Korean translator with them. Every one of these individuals had entered ...

in which our enemies and former friends unite

Builders are hit hard by loss of construction workers as the Trump administration cancels permits, but they're scared, and leave it to union leaders like IUPAT Painters chief Jimmy Williams to tell how 'taking away my brother' hurts America. My story: t.co/Y4nf4AMt2x

Pawpaw time

In a purported bid to cut costs by shrinking the federal workforce, the Trump administration has encouraged federal employees to leave government work via deferred resignation. Thousands of workers in Pennsylvania and beyond have taken him up on it.

Lancaster private equity king who raised $770 million from fellow Mennonites, Amish and national investors for bogus ATMs indicted by US, sued by SEC; investor lawsuit says salesmen are also to blame. My latest: www.inquirer.com/business/dar...

Lancaster private equity king who raised $770 million from fellow Mennonites, Amish and national investors for bogus ATMs indicted by US, sued by SEC; investor lawsuit says salesmen are also to blame www.inquirer.com/business/dar...

What will Hanwha do with $5 billion at Philly Shipyard? My story: www.inquirer.com/business/han...

Have a feeling this reader is really not going to like my response. Getting ready for some more hate mail!! Woot woot!

Parker still hasn't signed this bill www.inquirer.com/food/food-tr...

Pear time

If you were all like me the economy would crash Or power would be cheaper at least

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flights reach record highs, the airlines running the trips have taken steps to make it more difficult to track the planes used to carry shackled people across the country and around the world.

More engineers, welders, robots, cranes, dry-docks, dredging: Korea projects $5 billion for Hanwha Philly Shipyard after President Lee meets with Trump. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/han...

Re-posting: President Lee of South Korea is due at Hanwha Philly Shipyard tomorrow as US-Korean trade, investment, shipbuilding negotiations advance www.inquirer.com/business/tru...

Korea President, Trump Cabinet leaders to visit Philly Shipyard as trade, investment, war contract talks advance: my latest www.inquirer.com/business/tru...

Korea President, Trump Cabinet leaders to visit Philly Shipyard as trade, investment, war contract talks advance: my latest www.inquirer.com/business/tru...

"Within three weeks of his first purchase, Henry went from one bottle of kratom a day to six...Henry said a shop in Haverford often fronted him the cash to feed his habit until his next paycheck cleared." www.inquirer.com/news/kratom-...

People in Philly are much more broke than people in Boston, this WalletHub review of credit car delinquency shows. (Tradeline = # of borrowers, Balance = total $ bad loans.) Cheaper doesn't = more affordable; where life is expensive, there's more work wallethub.com/edu/cities-w...

Behind the scenes in recent years, prosecutors said in court documents, Nat Leonard helped oversee a system in which groups of thieves sold him goods including power tools, computer equipment, and electronics that he knew had been stolen from big-box retailers.

I’m a little afraid to ask

As SEPTA service gets cut, another large, new parking garage is coming to University City www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

About time

Yaay!

How Delaware Law helped coordinate state government's response to attacks on its 'corporate franchise' and Chancery by Elon Musk, Texas, and other critics and competitors. My latest: www.inquirer.com/business/del...

HowPhilly college dropout David Navazio used innovative low tech bandages, high tech record sharing, Medicare, and lots of visits to nursing homes to build Gentell, a multinational wound-care empire. My latest: www.inquirer.com/business/wou...

Lawyer who set up investments for Ponzi scheme Par Funding called 'pivotal' to fraud; investigators seek sanctions. Hearings start today. My latest: www.inquirer.com/business/par...

my latest: How a PA college dropout cold-called nursing homes, persuaded Medicare, and raised hometown capital to build Gentell, a multinational wound-care empire, with plants from London to Paraguay www.inquirer.com/business/wou...

After a long recovery, Pennsylvania's forest trees are falling to a new wave of pests, writes Frank Kummer in the Inquirer: www.inquirer.com/news/inq2/be...

Lackluster Avantor $AVTR, lab-equipment + materials co born of private-equity debt + M&A fees, is replacing CEO+CFO, but U.S. investor Engine Capital, with a history of stripping Philly cos., says it needs more cuts. My latest: www.inquirer.com/business/ava...