Joseph N. DiStefano
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In South Philly, Gopuff neighbors seek relief on safety, sanitation, and quality-of-life issues
Neighbors say they have had trouble coping with a car-based business in the increasingly residential neighborhood where Gopuff opened in late 2021 at a former grocery store at 13th and Washington. → Read More
A factory man helps guide the Franklin Institute to a new digital century of ‘igniting the imagination’
Tom Lynch, ex-boss of sensor giant TE Connectivity, brings lessons from an unforgiving global manufacturing business to help move Philadelphia's familiar Parkway science museum to the smartphone era. → Read More
Supreme Court rules Delaware wrongfully grabbed hundreds of millions in unclaimed MoneyGram funds
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that Delaware wrongfully grabbed hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed funds from customers of MoneyGram. → Read More
Is this Pa.’s new hydropower moment?
A proposal calls for water to be pumped into a newly created reservoir and then pass through turbines to generate electricity as it falls hundreds of feet to the Susquehanna River downstream. → Read More
War costs — and sales — mount for Pa. companies with Ukraine ties a year after Russia invaded
One year later, EPAM, Day & Zimmerman, and Nexteon talk about the business impact of Russia's attack on Ukraine → Read More
Feds file first criminal charges against Par Funding principal in long-running financial fraud probe
Perry Abbonizio, a managing partner and investment salesman for the Old City merchant cash advance lender, is expected to plead guilty to conspiracy charges on Wednesday. → Read More
Pa.’s richest man is jetting 100 people to the Super Bowl — and betting on Eagles’ victory
Billionaire Eagles fan Jeff Yass is building a sports-betting empire at his Susquehanna International Group → Read More
U.S. steel mills threatened as hot metal piles up in private-equity recycler’s ‘chaos’ bankruptcy
Radnor-based Phoenix Services' bankruptcy has been accompanied by poor maintenance and unfairly high price demands, Nucor told the bankruptcy court → Read More
Longwood Gardens is acquiring a 500-acre estate from the du Pont family
Longwood Gardens, Pa.'s top tourist attraction, is acquiring 505 acres of the Granogue estate in nearby northern Delaware, following the recent death of its longtime owner, Irenee "Brip" du Pont Jr. → Read More
Shapiro wants Pennsylvania pension funds to ditch Wall Street money managers
As chairman of the Montgomery County commissioners, Shapiro persuaded colleagues to fire dozens of traditional pension managers and replace them with low-cost index funds. → Read More
Drug-shipping giant AmerisourceBergen is changing its name to Cencora
Boosted by foreign acquisitions, stung by opiod settlements, Conshohocken-based firm seeks name change → Read More
PSERS trustees balk at putting another teacher in line for the chairman’s job
After GOP lawmakers and others refused to support her appointment, Sue Lemmo will have to wait if she's going to fill Chris Santa Maria's term. → Read More
Pay up or leave: Judge threatens to evict Par Funding owners from Haverford home over debt
The couple owe $61,000 in overdue rent and property maintenance fees for the Haverford house and two vacation homes. → Read More
Beyond recycling: This North Philly company wants retailers to reuse food, drug boxes
As Impact Recycling, the decades-old Philly company is spreading beyond its block-long Luzerne Street base. → Read More
New PSERS investment officer will earn $515,000, the top salary in Pa. government
Benjamin L. Cotton comes to PSERS from the Detroit-based United Auto Workers’ Retiree Medical Benefits Trust. → Read More
Investors are bracing themselves. Will 2023 be another rough year?
Stock market watchers warn that investors aren't out of the woods yet. → Read More
Blank Rome, under a new chairman, credits deep Philly roots as it builds a national future
A Philly firm since 1946, Blank Rome has grown to 664 lawyers, with offices in New York, Cincinnati, Tampa, Fort Lauderdale, Houston — and Shanghai. → Read More
What a Marine turned CPA learned as a watchdog of Pennsylvania’s and PSERS’s billions
Government has "failed to develop even basic controls," said former State Rep. Frank Ryan, who served on the PSERS board. → Read More
Snakeheads, Chinooks, Thrashers: U.S. approves $1.3 billion in Pa. military contracts
The money will go toward two kinds of helicopters and an underwater drone. → Read More
How Philly lost its big banks, and a little survivor that’s grown in the vacuum
From the fall of CoreStates to the success of WSFS, two new books go behind the scenes of Philly’s banks. → Read More