Natural gas development is safe, well-regulated and generates significant benefits for Pennsylvanians, as the record at Allegheny County’s Deer Lakes Park proves. Rather than deprive citizens of the public benefit future development could bring, Allegheny County Council should have respected County Executive Rich Fitzgerald’s veto to maintain status quo and
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Allegheny County Council on Tuesday voted to override a veto on a bill that bans new fracking leases on county parkland. The override marked the first time in Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald’s three terms that council overturned one of his vetoes. The bill bans new industrial leases at the
Allegheny County council has overridden an executive veto on a bill passed earlier this month banning future fracking projects in public parks. An attempt to override a second veto relating to executive hires failed to clear the two-thirds threshold.
Imagine feeling like a kid on Christmas morning — for two days in a row. For lifelong space enthusiast Bob Bickers of Murrysville, that’s what this week has been like as NASA releases the first images from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope. “Stunning, just stunning. The images certainly