Gopuff adds Starbucks founder Howard Schultz as a director The Philly-based Gopuff delivery chain says the ex-Starbucks CEO will help guide growth.

Starbucks ex-boss Howard Schultz joins Philly-based Gopuff as director, adviser www.inquirer.com/business/gop...

‘Big Beautiful Bill’ fuels big rise in giving at this $68 billion charity, which chose Conshohocken for its new HQ Holly Welch Stubbing built up a community foundation, headed a corporate-disaster-response firm, and now runs the National Philanthropic Trust, a Pennsylvania-based giant in the giving world.

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 steps aside after quick withdrawal of Pa. rate request Peco requested a rate increase from Pennsylvania regulators late last month, then pulled back the request weeks later.

Peco CEO is Out after failed Philly-area electric and gas rate hike plans. Our story: www.inquirer.com/business/pec...

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It's not a swamp, it's a marsh. And it's well-drained

Philadelphia to offer fans free transport when leaving World Cup games (Gift Article) Lincoln Financial Field will host six men's World Cup matches this summer, with Brazil and France among the teams playing in Philadelphia.

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

Why Pennsylvania’s No. 2 auto insurer confounds Wall Street Erie Indemnity was named to the S&P 500, then lost half its value. The Pa. company says its 7 million customers have nothing to fear.

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...

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City pledges quick approvals for big port, warehouse, factory developers in ‘Lower South’ Philly Mayor Cherelle L. Parker is pushing PHL Prime, a program that offers a fast track for developers creating jobs for industrial workers.

'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.

Vendors, gig workers, and therapists push back on Philadelphia’s ‘very unfriendly’ business tax One therapist's BIRT increased to more than $5,700 this year. "It exorbitantly affects my business," she said.

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’s Delaware Law School will move to a vacant corporate HQ space in Wilmington The move is planned for 2027 and brings the school closer to corporate law firms and branch offices.

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"
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Hanwha Philly and a partner are competing with a California shipyard to build U.S. Navy oiler ships The Philadelphia shipyard's owner will split a $4.5 million contract with Vard Marine in Houston to draft plans to build oiler ships for the Navy.

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...

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Meet the farmer who helped turn Chesco into Pa.’s richest county Gary Smith has run Chester County's development council for 50 years, from his Downingtown farm. As he retires, he shares lessons learned.

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 made millions for these Main Liners. Their family fight for the cash is heading to federal court. Kimberly Block says her mother, Penny Weiner, is trying to cut her out of her late father Warren Weiner's $200 million-plus fortune.

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...

Is the best Minimalist art collection in the world sitting in a Rittenhouse Square townhouse?

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.

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T.S.A. Tipped Off ICE Agents Before Arrests at San Francisco Airport

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.

Oil Dives as Trump Backs Off Iran Threats, Says Talks Underway Oil fell sharply, posting one of the biggest intraday price swings on record, after President Donald Trump posptoned strikes on Iranian power plants and said his team held discussions about ending the conflict, though Tehran denied any such dialog.

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

At least some of your posts appear to be assembled by AI agents and as a result conflate elements, creating inaccuracies. Tell us more, who set up your account, and why?

Cuba's latest blackout underscores its deepening economic crisis and tensions with US Much of Cuba is without power after its third islandwide blackout in four months. The outage on Tuesday underscored its deepening energy and economic crises and political tensions.

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.

Bill Gates’ nuclear company plans $450 million plant in Philly’s Bellwether District making radioactive cancer treatments TerraPower, a subsidiary of a nuclear energy company founded by Bill Gates, is expected to employ 225 people at the site when it is fully operational.

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...

The U.S. Mint dropped the olive branch from the dime. What does that mean for the country? | Fortune The eagle turned to the olive branch to show the nation's preference for peace over war.

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

The U.S. Mint dropped the olive branch from the dime. What does that mean for the country? | Fortune The eagle turned to the olive branch to show the nation's preference for peace over war.

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

The indictment of West Philly gang the Young Bag Chasers was building for years. Even members saw it coming. Abdul Vicks was "100%" a target of the investigation, prosecutors said, but his death didn't change the direction of the case.

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...