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For two decades the global oil market centered in Western Pennsylvania. Today, the navigability of Persian Gulf waterways largely dictates what we pay at the pump, but echoes remain from a market system developed 90 miles north of Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh’s above-ground power lines, abundant trees and worsening storms have residents buying generators, scoping out hotel rooms — and wishing the power company would do more to prevent blackouts.
Allegheny County Health Department officials initially reported no connection between a measles case and exposure at a McKnight Road Target and a school exposure. News that the infected kids share a school “significantly expands” the investigation.