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Poll: Obama job approval at 40% in Pa.Tony Phyrillas: Thursday, January 26, 2012
Highlights from the January 2012 Franklin and Marshall College Poll:
1. Most (47%) of the state’s voters believe Pennsylvania is headed in the wrong direction, a sentiment little changed during the past two years. The last time a majority of the state’s registered voters believed the state was headed in the right direction was September 2006.
2. More voters report they are worse off financially than are better off financially (26% and 15%, respectively) compared to one year ago, although m...
Sunoco Logistics’ 4Q results zoom beyond expectationsPhiladelphia Business Journal: Thursday, January 26, 2012
Sunoco Logistics Partners LP announced fourth-quarter results Thursday that far exceeded analysts’ estimates.
The Philadelphia-based operator of terminals and pipelines for oil and oil products said that it earned $76 million, or 60 cents per diluted limited partner unit, in the quarter. Excluding a $42 million charge related to Sunoco Inc.’s plan to get out of the refining business, it earned $118 million, or 99 cents per diluted unit. That beat the average estimate of 10 analysts polled by ...
Temple’s heart and lung transplant program reactivatedPhiladelphia Business Journal: Thursday, January 26, 2012
Temple University Hospital has reactivated its heart, lung, and heart/lung transplant programs, effective immediately.
The reactivation follows the hospital’s receipt of interim approval, from the United Network of Organ Sharing, to reactive the programs.
“The reactivation of these transplant programs gives Temple the opportunity once again to bring a full range of sophisticated, lifesaving care to patients with end-stage lung and heart disease – from effective medical therapy to bridge-to...
Switch at office managing partner post for Ogletree DeakinsPhiladelphia Business Journal: Thursday, January 26, 2012
As one office managing partner leaves another checks into the Philadelphia location of Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, the nation’s third-largest labor and employment firm.
Paul Lancaster Adams, who spent the past three as an in-house lawyer at Microsoft Corp., has returned to Philadelphia this month to helm the Ogletree location. His predecessor as office managing partner, Christopher Moran, left shortly after his arrival to become a partner at Pepper Hamilton.
Prior to his Microso...
Xfinity Live! to be open for Bruce Springsteen concerts in late MarchPhiladelphia Business Journal: Thursday, January 26, 2012
The Xfinity Live! Philadelphia dining-and-entertainment venue at the site of the old Spectrum will be open “in time for the two upcoming Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concerts,” according to news release that went out today.
Xfinity Live! will open at 4 p.m. on the dates of the Springsteen shows, which are set for March 28 and 29.
A grand opening there on March 30 will feature a "live national recording act," the release promised.
Originally called “Philly Live!”, it was devel...
